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Caption: Sleeping Jesus
On this episode, we bring you Sleeping Jesus and their performance during the Midwest Music Festival 2017. Nick Elsted, the lead vocalist of this W...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2017
  • Length: 32:41
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Chopin guides us back home through a tender harmonic progression in the third movement of this masterpiece.

  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 07:43
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A moment of passion taken from the final movement of Barber's Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6

  • Added: May 03, 2017
  • Length: 04:08
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A moment of exuberance taken from the Chaconne of J.S. Bach's Partita in D Minor, BWV 1004.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2017
  • Length: 07:39
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The exquisite "Amen" from Brahms' Geistliches Lied, Op. 30. Performed by Singers of Anam Cara, directed by James Jordan.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 06:29
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Today's Musical Moment is taken from the Adagio movement of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16, featuring Van Cliburn, Eugene Ormandy & The ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 04:35
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This is a beautiful audio production about the more profound nature of our relationships with animals and the natural world. Hosted by NY Times bes...

Bought by WCPN and WFSU


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 47:22
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Kronick Quintet at Golden's Deli, Credit: George Tofoya
The Kronick Quintett plays frequently at the Public Kitchen and Bar, which faces the north side of Mears Park in Saint Paul. The group’s next perf...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 05:00
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As New Orleans lost its commercial position as a major port and blacks fled the oppression of the American south, the cream of NOLA musicians hit t...

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCNY, KMUN, WMOT and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 25
Caption: Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra, Credit: Diego Ramallo
A few years ago, Jeff Senn and Mac Santiago, experienced Minnesota jazz players, noticed a lack of a Latin Jazz Orchestra locally. So they recruite...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Old Joe Clark has been around forever seemingly. It’s used as a square dance tune, so that helps keep it around. That it crooked and difficult to l...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2016
  • Length: 07:21
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Bob Dylan has been singing more than 50 years. But have you ever really stopped to listen to the words?

Bought by Prairie Public, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 8
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Dizzy told us we ain’t heard nothin’ yet, then stood by his claim in ’46. The ever-present Blind Boys of Alabama bring in Koko Taylor, we need trom...

Bought by KMXT, WYAP, WJSU, WVBI-LP, WMOT and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2016
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: at rehearsal, Credit: penelopefreeh.com
Penelope Freeh co-created Test Pilot with composer Jocelyn Hagen... Their original, live chamber orchestra, dance opera brings the history of aviat...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 07:08
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"You can play notes, but if you don't put anything in the notes, that's what it is...just notes." - Pharoah Sanders.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: By Courtesy of Cyprès, Credit:  Antoine Presles
Up-and-coming as well as well-known Francophone Singer/Songwriters treat us to their beautiful songs. You do not need French language skills to en...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2016
  • Length: 27:15
Caption: Edmunt Catlin on the drums with the group Hoaxer, Credit: Lee Tran
Edmund Catlin is a young Twin Cities drummer who, while still in college, plays in a variety of jazz bands. To Edmund, playing jazz requires a comb...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 06:53
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
When you listen to a big band recording, you have the pleasure of engaging with a large number of talented musicians. But even if it is a small big...

  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 08:10
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It’s a challenge to be a full-time jazz musician. But challenging or not, that’s what Joel Shapira does. He does it by becoming expert at many phas...

  • Added: May 01, 2016
  • Length: 08:01
Caption: Beth Harrington, San Francisco, CA, 4/19/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Beth Harrington talks strong women, powerful music, and Johnny Cash descending from heaven.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2016
  • Length: 23:55
Caption: Southside Aces, Credit: Jonathan Hankin
The Southside Aces is a Minneapolis-based New Orleans-style Jazz group playing uncompromised traditional Jazz. They play it the old way, but when a...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2016
  • Length: 09:10
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An interview/music mix with Gayle Wald, author of "Shout, Sister, Shout. The story of Rock and Roll trailblazer, Sister Rosetta Tharpe"

Bought by Prairie Public, KMUW, and WSGE


  • Added: Mar 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:26:14
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: On The Air at WGDR-Plainfield, VT ~ Goddard College Community Radio, Credit: B. Aust
The Origins of JazzGrass continues with a first pass through the most influential guitar players in bluegrass, jazz, progressive acoustic and relat...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:36
Caption: Cover of "I See the Rhythm of Gospel" book, Credit: Michelle Wood
Sharing American history and travel through the legendary voices of Maya Angelou and Ellis Marsalis along with well-known artists Sandra Izsadore a...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2016
  • Length: 59:55
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Trumpet time, Eddie Henderson interprets Wayne Shorter. Then to usher in the topic of the hour, former employees Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Ji...

Bought by KMXT, WVBI-LP, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 6