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Carmen McRae was one of the most respected jazz singers in the business for four decades. This week, we’ll explore her early recordings for the Dec...
- Added: Feb 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This week, we pay tribute to singer and humanitarian Harry Belafonte. We’ll explore his expansive recording career, which encompassed folk, calypso...
- Added: Feb 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This week on Afterglow, we explore the songs of two unrelated black jazz composers from the early 20th century: Spencer Williams and Clarence Willi...
- Added: Jan 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
The children of Baptist preachers, raised in gospel music — Aretha Franklin and Sam Cooke are two of the most venerated names in soul. This week, w...
- Added: May 22, 2023
- Length: 59:00
On this episode, we’ll explore the life and career of “Mr. B” Billy Eckstine, a singer and bandleader who broke boundaries as a black icon in a seg...
- Added: Jan 30, 2023
- Length: 59:00
This week, Mark Chilla talks with jazz historian Will Friedwald about the early years of Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, as they explore some...
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Today on “The Live Feed” we take you back to Mid West Music Fest 2015 and the music of Toki Wright. Toki Wright’s music has been described as a ble...
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 26:21
It's the rough and tumble 1920s Chicago’s speakeasies. You had to have a password to gain entrance through a side door.
Bought by WDCB, Radio New Zealand, and KCBX
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
From winning an amateur contest at Piqua's May's Opera House in the 1920s to the rise of rock and roll in the early fifties and their number one hi...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 04, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
We trace hip hop’s roots, focusing on how it's expressed in different regions of our country, from California to New York, and even in Virginia. Pl...
Bought by WJCT, WABE, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF
- Added: Apr 18, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
American-invented hip hop music is now an international phenomenon with rappers in countries like Japan and Senegal. We trace hip hop’s roots, focu...
- Added: Apr 18, 2014
- Length: 53:52
- Purchases: 4
A birthday tribute to the American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer, born April 12, 1940.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 59:52
- Purchases: 2
Cornetist Thomas Morris is somewhat of an obscure artist from the 1920s, although he was certainly very active recording with Clarence Williams, Si...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
McCoy Tyner explains how he creates music for small groups, big bands and his Latin group
Bought by WEKU, North State Public Radio, and KGOU
- Added: Oct 06, 2005
- Length: 04:06
- Purchases: 3