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Caption: Language Lessons
Jeremy Mackie - Cinematographer - Your Sister's Sister, Green Room, Special, Eden, Almost Friends, Language Lessons, 7 Days, and the upcoming I'll ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Pig 1
Brett Bachman - Film Editor - Max Rose, The Party's Just Beginning, Mandy, Color Out of Space, Pig

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ethel Waters
She began as a blues singer. Then turned to popular song with a jazz flavor. She was a movie star for her next recreation. And, finally, a gospel s...

Bought by KCBX and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
50 million new-planted trees and a Guinness World Record later, India is on its way to reducing extreme pollution.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Art Hodes Riverboat Club
Quite a number of jazz musicians who were too young to take part in traditional jazz of the 1920s, joined the Revivalist era of the 1940s. To them ...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Last Shift
Mott Hupfel - Cinematographer - The American Astronaut, The Savages, Jack Goes Boating, All is Bright, Eating Animals, The Last Shift

  • Added: Jan 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Preservation Hall Jazz Band make their debut on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes the torchbearers of Traditional New Orleans Jazz The Preservati...

Bought by KENW, Yellowstone Public Radio, KHNS, KKRN, WETS and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 23
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The Great American Songbook is chockablock with antiquated notions of gender roles, but a few songs flip the script. On this special, we explore so...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Troy Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUNM and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: J.C. Higginbotham
Pianist and bandleader Luis Russell happened to have one of the best bands in the Big Apple by the latter 1920s.

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  • Added: Feb 06, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Washboard Man" Roscoe Goose of the Juggernaut Jug Band.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes the sound of Louisville, Kentucky The Juggernaut Jug Band plus in-demand ...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WRGY, WVRU, KUCO and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 20
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Today, capitalism, aka the free market, is linked to trade wars, suffocating student debt, entire countries gone bankrupt, burgeoning virtual curre...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:36
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Come with us to the legendary Key West for conversations about creativity on two live streaming Fresh Art International radio shows. This cultural ...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 51:23
Caption: Miami Marine Stadium, Credit: Diana Larrea
Miami Marine Stadium inspires this tale of modernist architecture and Biscayne Bay, of speedboats and rock stars, of skateboarding, street art and ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 46:07
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In this conversation, we talk about how the island country of Haiti has long inspired contemporary art, books and films and how the cultural comple...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 53:28
Caption: Buddy Bolden
This is a trek through the streets of New Orleans of the 1920s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Beth Judy talks about her young adult historical text, Bold Women in Montana History. She also reads two short passages.

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Thomas 'Fats' Waller
The early years of jazz were filled with talented musicians, but only a few stood out as larger than life personalities with innovative ideas.

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Funeral service in front of Barrett's Market 1942
A community garden project at Barrett Brothers Park in north St. Louis prompts memories of the Barrett family, who came to Missouri as Irish famine...

  • Added: May 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:23
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The Harmonizing vocals of The Boswell Sisters and The Mills Brothers were inspired by the turn of the century barbershop quartets.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Stompin'
The evolution of "The Stomp" goes back several hundred years,but when jazz began incorporating the phrase into the music, it took on a completely d...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Dec 13, 2015
  • Length: 10:50
Caption: Cab Calloway
This program features three artists who could ignite an audience just by walking on stage. Don Redman, Ted Lewis and Cab Calloway. They were all fi...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Original Creole Orchestra
The first two decades of jazz witnessed a new dynamic for promotions. Musicians began gathering in the streets of New Orleans in an effort to outsh...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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November 13, 1974 was first day on the air. A few months later was jazz radio show # 1. It has taken 40 years to get to this edition #. These ho...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WOUB, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:59:55
  • Purchases: 3
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A reading from the Kings James Version of the Bible from Acts: Chapter 2 Verses 1 thru 39.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:43