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Notes from the Jazz Underground #115 - Chick Corea part 4: The Elektric Band
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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In this, the fourth and final look back at Chick Corea, we check both versions of Chick Corea's Elektric Band, plus their reunions in 2004 and 2011!

Bought by KRCB 104.9 and KRPS


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
GN_5.22_ElectricRain
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
In 2017, a couple of ninth graders developed a way to make electricity from the rain.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Notes from the Jazz Underground #111 - Ani DiFranco & Bill Laswell
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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This week, we'll take a listen to the work of bassist and producer Bill Laswell, and guitarist, vocalist and composer Ani DiFranco.

Bought by KRCB 104.9 and KRPS


  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Notes from the Jazz Underground #106 - The Best of 2020, part 1
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll check out some of the best that 2020 had to offer from Jeff Parker, Will Bernard, Jeremy Cunningham, Jazz is Dead, and more!

Bought by KRCB 104.9, KLCC, and KRPS


  • Added: Jan 03, 2021
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 3
Notes from the Jazz Underground #104 - Avant-Garde Saxophones
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll take a listen to some of the titans of the avant-garde...Yusef Lateef, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman and a few modern...

Bought by KRPS and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 2
Notes from the Jazz Underground #103 - Frank Zappa
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, it's the annual Notes from the Jazz Underground tribute to Frank Zappa, with selections from Hot Rats, Chunga's Revenge, Sleep Dirt, and...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 58:04
Notes from the Jazz Underground #98
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll take a listen to music from Frank Zappa, Dave Holland, Fred Anderson, Herbie Hancock, and more!

Bought by KRPS, KRCB 104.9, and KLCC


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Full Moon Hacksaw #1735 (Hour 1 & 2) - 04-30-2020
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Self-isolating with the radio, from down San Diego way come sax man Christopher Hollyday and his trumpeter Gilbert Castellenos. Up the coast Art Pe...

Bought by KHNS, KJZX-Austin, WYAP, WEJP-LP 107.1, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 10
Notes from the Jazz Underground #69
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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This week, we'll listen to some funky music. We'll listen to some funky music on the edge, and we'll check out some great collaborative efforts fro...

Bought by KRPS, KLCC, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 58:20
  • Purchases: 3
Murial Deegan KBFT Unexplained Series 2020
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
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Bois Forte Elder, Murial Deegan talks about strange occurrences while at her work place.

  • Added: Apr 20, 2020
  • Length: 04:18
Dayshun Goodsky KBFT Unexplained Series 2020
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
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Bois Forte Elder, Dayshun Goodsky talks about strange things around the Nett Lake, MN community.

  • Added: Apr 20, 2020
  • Length: 03:13
Episode 2: Betsy
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
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Leonard hits shuffle on his iPad. She now has a name.

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 01:54:51
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 1
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
Caption: Slatkin Shuffle, Credit: Classic 107.3
Leonard hits shuffle on his iPad.

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 01:56:13
  • Purchases: 1
Notes from the Jazz Underground #63 - TRIBUTE TO McCOY TYNER
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we celebrate one of the finest pianists in the history of Jazz, with a look at some of his most fiery and exploratory moments, from his ...

Bought by KRPS and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 2
Jesse Whitney, Electronic Composer
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Jesse Whitney, Credit: Olive Thoen
Jesse Whitney creates music on an electronic device known as a synthesizer. In a conversation with Phil Nusbaum, Jesse told of his music creation a...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jesse Whitney Performs Electronic Music at Sunday March 1 at Minneapolis’ Kit Kat Club
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Jesse Whitney, Credit: Olive Thoen
Jesse Whitney creates music on an electronic device known as a synthesizer. His next show is at the Kitty Kat Club in Minneapolis. In a conversatio...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
Notes from the Jazz Underground #53 - 2019 Year in Review, pt 2
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, I continue my look back at some of the best left-of-center Jazz released in 2019, and we'll hear from Snarky Puppy, Brad Mehldau, The Co...

Bought by KRPS and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 31, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Solar Sistren Improvises All the Way this Monday at the Icehouse in Minneapolis
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Mankwe Ndosi presents Great Black music December Mondays at 9PM at the Icehouse in Minneapolis. This Monday’s performance is by Solar Sistren. Sola...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Notes from the Jazz Underground #45
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, some slightly dusty gems, some brand new things, and some nuggets from the songbooks of John Zorn, David Bowie, Duke Ellington and more!

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
When Sound is Art—Five Sonic Stories
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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Today, we introduce you to five artists whose primary medium is sound. The diverse techniques and concepts they explore demonstrate the versatility...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2019
  • Length: 58:01
Humbird’s Experimental Folk
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Because “folk” is viewed as a conservative musical idiom, you might wonder about a group calling itself experimental folk. But Humbird makes it wor...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Humbird Debuts New Experimental Folk CD this Saturday at the Parkway Theater in Minneapolis
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Humbird features the original songs of Siri Undlin, and releases a CD called Pharmakon at the Parkway in Minneapolis this Saturday night, Sept 7. S...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Wunderbar Together - Einstürzende Neubauten
From: Arndt Peltner
Series: Wunderbar Together
Caption: Wunderbar Together
The Einstürzenden Neubauten are a one of a kind band, but another great music story for this series.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2019
  • Length: 58:32
Welcome To The Cabal
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Image of Actor Jamie Case , Credit: Photo Courtesy of Dan Norman
Within a hidden maze of mysterious rooms, a magical secret society needs the help of new initiates. Cabal – a play with puzzles, created by the Min...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:08
Sex, Pleasure, and Liberation: Desire in A World Transformed
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Regulation, degradation, shaming, blaming - enough! Is it time for sexual liberation yet? We talk a lot about sex but not often enough about pleasu...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1