PRX - Pieces for Tone: Unconventional

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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
Caption: Gene Vincent
The Writer takes over to program music and run the board.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:52:49
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End of the show are Paladins songs as they probably first heard them.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:58:58
Caption: Arthur Brown On Fire
The title says, well, not all of it but most of it. Don't miss the story of my friend who was run over by a train.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 03:10:26
Caption: Ernie K-Doe at His Lounge
The show got exciting so we went into overtime with a four hour show. Another radio musical at the front end.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2020
  • Length: 04:00:11
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The feel of post WWII American was joyful, whimsical, hopeful and you can hear it in the music.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2020
  • Length: 02:55:50
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Songs about those roadside attractions that line the highway with billboards. Yep, there's plenty of songs about them even within the narrow "soun...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 03:19:34
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dixie Cups
Ending the show with girl group songs about being "too young" to go steady, to get married, to fall in love, to tango, etc. Before that shmaltzy s...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 03:33:08
Caption: Being Reasonable
A psycholinguist/minister discusses her belief in non-physical avenues for acquiring knowledge. Then we have a moving conversation with Christophe...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Washington Phillips
Washington Phillips music placed next to contemporary musicians.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:06:23
Caption: Loren Greene On the Ponderosa
I never guessed there would be so many singing groupies for Ringo Starr but you would never believe how many songs I didn't play because they were ...

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:55:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Cowboy meets jazz hepster in music.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:52:14
Caption: Goree Girls
Yep. She's doing some work on songs today.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 03:00:02
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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

  • Added: Dec 31, 2019
  • Length: 03:15:21
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Indulge me, picking some of the best of songs for tonight's show.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 03:10:25
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:04:29
Caption: Foggy New Orleans
The last 15 minutes of the show is about you at four in the morning. Before that, music from drums made of water, bad song requests, leaving the g...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 03:35:40
Caption: Bobby Angelo
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of but it appeals because this was the music that influenced the popular musicians of our ...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:52:28

  • Added: Nov 09, 2019
  • Length: 02:58:05
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Similar to my WWOZ midnight shows, The Ghost covers the post WW era (WWI) where western or cowboy music was similar to jazz music. Outside of some...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2019
  • Length: 02:01:21
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Urban musicians often chose country music because it was lucrative. They wore the country music costumes, played the instrumentation, and made the...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:52:29
Caption: Tommy Lewis / Kid Thomas
Nursery rhyme songs, Louisiana music, Sunday afternoon at the park music, and a couple aging women songs to end the show.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2019
  • Length: 03:04:49
Caption: Sleepy LaBeef in his movie role as a monster
It's topical theme night with songs about laughing and cigarettes. I've been playing with country and western songs that are swing jazz or boogie ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 07, 2019
  • Length: 03:32:42
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rockin' Sidney Simien one of many you're hearing tonight!
And plenty of Louisiana music too. A good photo gallery of the musicians and music from the first hour of the show.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2019
  • Length: 02:54:17