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Notes from the Jazz Underground #61 - Songs from the African Continent
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, NFTJU checks out music from Nigeria, Mali, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast and Morocco with some great jams from Fela Kuti, Ali Farka Toure, Tinar...

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


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
19th Amendment: Part 1
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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We explore the myths and unveil the realities of the story of the Nineteenth Amendment in part one of two episodes.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 24:22
Worl Bridges - 1109
From: Tom Berich
Caption: PRX default Piece image
World Bridges for MTPR - 1109

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 04, 2023
  • Length: 01:01:09
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 11/03/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Making fuel out of food. Sounds like it could be pretty sustainable, right? But then again, does it make sense to be growing...

Bought by Radio Kansas and WXDU


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 29:58
  • Purchases: 2
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 Northwest Public Broadcasting, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRCB 104.9, KRSC and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 6
Skin Deep
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Happy Halloween! Jess talks with UCLA librarian Megan Rosenbloom about the spooky science of uncovering what makes some old books extra rare.

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
231104 Give Me Slack(s) - Songs About Tight Legged Pants
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Songs from the late 1950s / early 1960s about how skinny legged pants making the wearer a cooler, better dancer. Yep, I'm gonna buy my way into bei...

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


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 7
Notes from the Jazz Underground #240
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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New music from John Scofield and Joel Harrison, and cool music from Allen Toussaint, Ani DiFranco and more!

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting, KRCB 104.9, KRSC, and KRPS


  • Added: Oct 25, 2023
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 4
Full Moon Hacksaw #1917 (Hour 1 & 2) - 10/26/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Jazz provides mistakes as opportunities, a total rhythm underly it all. Saxophonist Cory Weeds has a new release bringing in trumpet man Brad Turne...

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


  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 9
Notes from the Jazz Underground #239: Weird Sounds from the Organ
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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This week, we'll check out three outstanding organists, and three outstanding tunes. Check out Larry Goldings (with Trio Beyond), Brian Charette an...

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


  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 57:44
  • Purchases: 6
Full Moon Hacksaw #1916 (Hour 1 & 2) - 10/19/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Freedom to find what feels best and to hang there, we listen to the Miles of 1963, then a trajectory of new 2023 releases with the Affinity Trio, t...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KHNS, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 11
231022 We Almost Found The First R&R Song This Week
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Sandy Posey
We were so close I could smell it. All my listeners agreed, the show smelled.

Bought by KFCF FM, KSLU, KPRG, Delmarva Public Media, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Jonkunnu - For MTPR 1019
From: Tom Berich
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jonkunnu Express for Montana Public Radio - 1019

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:35
  • Purchases: 1
War and Peace
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Songs about war and peace

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Notes from the Jazz Underground #238
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we do some Notes from the Jazz Underground globetrotting, with stops in Cuba, New Zealand, Britain, New York, and of course, Chicago.

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


  • Added: Oct 11, 2023
  • Length: 57:19
  • Purchases: 6
231008 Searching For The First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Polly Possum
Sly Stone's first record at age 14 when he walked in on established vocal harmony group, The Viscaynes, and told them to follow him to success. Al...

Bought by KPRG, WYAP, KFCF FM, KSLU, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Horrors of the Night
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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October is the time for ghost stories, in this season of growing darkness.Tonight we are visited by a mysterious geist, in an ancient old city that...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Notes from the Jazz Underground #237
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, it's time to check out some new music. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Johnathan Blake, James Brandon Lewis and more!

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, KRCB 104.9, KRSC, KRPS and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 6
Notes from the Jazz Underground #236 - The Sounds of Chicago
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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Some new music, some old music and some great music from Chicagoans past and present. Jaimie Branch, Fred Anderson and more!

Bought by KRSC, KRPS, Northwest Public Broadcasting, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 4
230930 Let's Get Rid of Some Teenagers
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Sammy Masters and Jimmy Bryant
No seatbelts, air bags, safety glass, padded dashboards, etc. of the bad old days and we get dead teenager song lyrics. Oh also songs about wine a...

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


  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 8
Full Moon Hacksaw #1913 (Hour 1 & 2) - 09/28/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Jazz makes things matter, makes us wanna care. Dr. Eddie Henderson’s trumpet playing started in the 1970s, sounds great in the 1990s example we pla...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, KHNS, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
Jon- MTPR-0925
From: Tom Berich
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jonkunnu Express for MTPR0925

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Notes from the Jazz Underground #235
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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Tonight, we come up for air at street level with Jazz, fused with Hip-Hop and R&B from Branford Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, Grover Washington, Jr and m...

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


  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 5
230917 Searching for the First Rock and Roll Song All Girl Groups,
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: George Martin Along With The Beatles. Producer For The Beatles. As "Ray Cathode," Martin Created a 45 rpm Record of "Electronic Music" in the Early 1960s
We won't find the first rock and roll record but in the search we will find the roots of our post WWII generation's musical sensibilities.

Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 7
All Mixed Up-Seasons
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Last Gas Before Fall, Credit: Edward Hopper
End of the Summer, back to school mix with a seasonal theme and well blended music...a final September Song

  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 01:56:14

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