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Notes from the Jazz Underground #259: Remembering Casey Benjamin
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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This week, we remember Casey Benjamin, as we listen to him with The Robert Glasper Experiment, Stefon Harris + Blackout, and Ghost-Note.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRCB 104.9, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KRSC, KRPS and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 6
Thanksgiving Tunes
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Sounds Jewish prepares for Thanksgiving with a global playlist of Jewish songs and shtick about gratitude, blessings, hospitality -- and dinner.

Bought by Angelica Community Radio and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
AG 23-29: My Coloring Book: Colors In Popular Song, 7/17/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week on Afterglow, we explore the colorful spectrum of the Great American Songbook, from “Red Sails In The Sunset” to “Deep Purple.”

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Full Moon Hacksaw #1875 (Hour 1 & 2) - 01/05/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Themes for this first radio episode of a new year are: “2022 Releases in Review” with six tracks, and “Jazz of the 1970s” with four tracks from tha...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KRZA, WYAP, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 9
Full Moon Hacksaw #1861 (Hour 1 & 2) - 09/29/2022
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Mr. Blues, Hank Crawford, the sax man from the Ray Charles band, starts our show from the 1990s and a particularly poignant singer named Rene Marie...

Bought by KMXT, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WEJP-LP 107.1, KHNS and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
220828 Searching For The First Rock and Roll Song in Cowboy Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Willie Dixon
It wasn't exclusively "the blues" that started rock and roll. In previous shows we heard how the cha cha, mambo, bolero, and even sea shanty were ...

Bought by KPRG, KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WYAP, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 04:59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Cowboys and Gauchos
From: Classic107.3
Series: Tango with Cally
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The musical connections between depictions of the open land in American classical music and Argentine gaucho songs.

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piazzolla’s Teachers
From: Classic107.3
Series: Tango with Cally
Caption: Astor Piazzolla
The teachers and mentors who helped Tango master Astor Piazzolla find his sound.

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Sep 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw #1778 (Hour 1 & 2) - 02-25-2021
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Veteran percussionist Joe Chambers has a new release of some samba but we pick a standard specifically for melody. Billy Holiday continues with gue...

Bought by KHNS, KRZA, WMOT, WOUB, KJZX-Austin and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 9
Luke Hendrickson: One Night at the Crystal Lounge
From: KQAL
Series: The Sound
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Tonight on The Sound we are joined in the studio by Luke Hendrickson to dive into his first full length album, One Night At the Crystal Lounge. Luk...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
Full Moon Hacksaw #1743 (Hour 1 & 2) - 06-25-2020
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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We’re having a party in-studio as it’s program 1800 in real time. We like reed man Brian Landrus, who feels very west coast like warm beach sand un...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, WEJP-LP 107.1, WOUB, GCR (Global Community Radio), KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 10
Full Moon Hacksaw #1738 (Hour 1 & 2) - 05-21-2020
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Blues, big band, and much more vinyl than usual permeate our proceedings first with organist Don Patterson representing the Philadelphia sound, Car...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WYAP, WEJP-LP 107.1, WMOT and more


  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 9
191102 Ghost Cowboy and Jazz Songs of Post WWI
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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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
191026 Ghost Large Western and Jazz Bands
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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There's not much difference between post WWI western or jazz musics. The similarities? These musics are great.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:56:51
Happy Birthday :22
From: Paul Messing
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A strange and relaxing Happy Birthday phone message from an Eastern European woman.

  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: :21
S1 E8 Even The Morgue Has a Wait List
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Hospital administrator Galen Laserson recounts the time she got an unexpected call in the middle of the night, which prompted her to learn all abou...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 30:10
Anthony, Adams Esq.: A Deeply Romantic Public Defender, etc.
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Our guest in this edition of Radio Curious is Anthony Adams, Esq., is currently, among other things, a Deputy Public Defender in Mendocino County, ...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Full Moon Hacksaw #1637 (Hour 1 & 2) - 06/14/2018
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Phoenix broadcast legend Pat McMahon, 85, of Wallace & Ladmo TV and KRIZ Radio, joins us in front of live audience at Los Compadres. Between jazz h...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WMOT, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WJSU and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 9
The Working Tapes: Gravedigger
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Studs Terkel interviews a gravedigger in 1972 for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 4
Besties
From: Israel Story
Series: Israel Story Podcast
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How Moshe Dayan’s wife and Yasser Arafat’s mother-in-law became bosom buddies, and other tales of unlikely friendships.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 44:06
Everyday Carry - Short Version
From: Erica Kramer
Caption: Helen's Knife
George Rebello has been making knives in his workshop in New Bedford for fifteen years. Normally it takes him two weeks to make a custom creation. ...

Bought by PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 03, 2012
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 3
Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with 4th generation family farmer, Eric Herm, and author of "Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth." Herm is transitioning his f...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
Placenta Fruit
From: Will Rogers
Series: Compostmodernist
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Taste the fruit of a tree that has a placenta buried beneath it... it's tart and crisp. Learn about how the placenta, which connects mother and chi...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:04
A Shortcut To the North Pole
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Santa Claus Jr.
A Holiday Classic! Join Howdy, Mickey, John, Paul, George & Ringo on this "wild and crazy joyride" to Santa's workshop in the northern most reaches...

Bought by Prairie Public, KVSC, KRZA, KVSC, KMXT and more


  • Added: Dec 16, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 16
Bird
From: William Hrdina
Series: Simple Journeys to Odd Destinations
Caption: www.williamhrdina.com
Short story about the power of music

  • Added: Apr 12, 2008
  • Length: 14:21