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Billy Foster Jazz Zone #4
From: Billy Foster
Series: Billy Foster Jazz Zone Archives
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This is a two hour program that features jazz DJ Billy Foster playing straight ahead jazz. Music as played by the old masters and music from the be...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 26, 2014
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Billy Foster Jazz Zone #3
From: Billy Foster
Series: Billy Foster Jazz Zone Archives
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This is a two hour program that features jazz DJ Billy Foster playing straight ahead jazz. Music as played by the old masters and music from the be...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 26, 2014
  • Length: 01:58:53
  • Purchases: 1
Billy Foster Jazz Zone #7
From: Billy Foster
Series: Billy Foster Jazz Zone Archives
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This is a two hour program that features jazz DJ Billy Foster playing straight ahead jazz. Music as played by the old masters and music from the be...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2014
  • Length: 01:58:23
Klezmer Funk Hip-Hop? Abraham Inc.
From: Michael May
Caption: Fred Wesley, left, and David Krakauer., Credit: David Krakauer
The klezmer-funk-hip-hop group Abraham Inc. will have their debut performance at the Apollo tonight. Reporter Michael May has the story behind this...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
From Bessie to Billie
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bessie Smith
The cornerstones for this program: Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday featuring several artists who benefited from the breakthrough recordings of Mami...

Bought by KMUW and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Jelly's Keys
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jelly Roll Morton
Ferdinand “Jelly Roll Morton” LaMothe was among the elite, privileged few of the Creole population of New Orleans. Although the heyday of the city ...

Bought by KMUW and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 26, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Grandmaster Flash on the History of DJ Scratching
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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According to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, "Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five fomented the musical revolution known as hip-hop. Theirs was a p...

Bought by WFHB and WETD


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 2
The Early Mills Brothers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Mills Brothers
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
Bow Ties
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Winold Riess
When jazz enthusiasts think of early violin performances, they may naturally land upon the name Joe Venuti. Indeed, Joe was one of the earliest, bu...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 17, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Furious Love (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Nancy Schoenberger chronicles the tempestuous romance of Liz & Dick in her book Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of...

Bought by WJCT, WMNF, WLIW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
America the Beautiful (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A stirring collection of patriotic music performed throughout U.S. history by African Americans, sometimes in the face of public hostility. Also, s...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WUFT, WJCT, WFHB, WLIW and more


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
A Tale of Three Cities
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Luis Russell
A native of Panama, Luis Russell moved to New Orleans in 1919 after winning a $3000 lottery. He became a mainstay house pianist. But, in 1925 he mo...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Quality Serenaders
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lionel Hampton
Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders should be better known. But, they’re not. Part of the reason is their geographical location: Los Angeles - 1929. A...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 03, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Choclatt Jared on Conversations with Allan Wolper
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Choclatt Jared has played his bucket drums on 42nd Street, at the Grammy Awards, the Tony Awards, the Academy Awards, and on Saturday Night Live. H...

  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 30:13
Louie's Lament
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Armstrong
In the early years of recordings, Louis Armstrong became a trailblazing pioneer in the art of accompanying blues singers. I wasn’t as easy as it ma...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Southwest
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Champion Records label
Overlooked as a gathering place for hot jazz in the 1920s, the Southwest sported some excellent musicians. Many went on to successful careers in th...

Bought by Radio New Zealand and KCBX


  • Added: May 07, 2014
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
Hip Hop in Virginia (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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The history of hip hop usually centers on major cities, but a new archive is highlighting the rich history of hip hop in Virginia. Allison Quantz h...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Apr 28, 2014
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
Hip Hop, You Don’t Stop (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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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
Hip Hop, You Don’t Stop (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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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...

Bought by WEAA, WCNY, WXDU, and WTJU


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 4
Connie's Hot Chocolates
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fats Waller
Connie’s Hot Chocolates opened at the Hudson Theater, 44th Street east of Broadway, on June 20, 1929. It was a slice of Harlem nightlife.

Bought by KZYX and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Jazz-O-Rama Hour #47: Funk-O-Rama Fusion
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour
Caption: An hour of classic 70s jazz-rock fusion., Credit: Lorie Kellogg
Host Joe Bev goes back in time to the 1970s for an unusual hour of jazz-rock fusion LP cuts.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WDCB, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 3
Mamie Smith
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Mamie Smith
She billed herself as “The Queen of the Blues.” But, technically, she wasn’t a blues singer.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 12, 2014
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Dave Holland Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Bassist Dave Holland started his performing career in London. One night, he received word that a visiting musician from the states wanted to hire ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 09:46
Joe Robichaux & his New Orleans Boys
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Joe Robichaux
On the one had, you can say that pianist and arranger Joe Robichaux was a New Orleans musician, on the other, his unique sound set him apart from h...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
A Modern Moment in Entertainment, 90 Years Ago. The Middle Edges #102
From: Teosson Wells
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Today, few Americans know much about Josephine Baker. Why? It wasn’t because she lacked artistic skill or failed to remain relevant during a long c...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 18:38
  • Purchases: 1