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In the early 1950s, singer June Christy broke away from Stan Kenton’s Orchestra to record solo, helping to establish the “vocal cool” style of jazz...
- Added: Feb 19, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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
Twins Cynthia and Edwina Bringle are 84 year old artists and legends at the renowned Penland School of Craft in North Carolina. The new documentar...
- Added: Jan 01, 2024
- Length: 28:01
Singer Keely Smith became famous as the deapan sidekick to her husband Louis Prima, and as a ballad singer in the late 1950s. This week on Afterglo...
- Added: Oct 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
This week, we explore the songs of Dorothy Fields, a Tin Pan Alley songwriter whose work stretched from the 1920s through the 1970s. We’ll sample h...
- Added: Jul 18, 2023
- Length: 59:00
This week, we celebrate the smoky voice of jazz singer Chris Connor, who got her start with Claude Thornhill’s band in the 1940s, and went on to re...
- Added: Oct 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
From the 1950s on, Ella Fitzgerald became known around the world as one of the most renowned live performers in jazz. This week, we’ll sample from ...
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:00
This week, we take a look at some of the jazz and swing tunes from the 1950s Capitol Records diva Kay Starr, in honor of her 100th birthday.
- Added: Jul 11, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Doris Day was a pop star and a film star, but this week on Afterglow, I’ll highlight the often overlooked aspect of her career: a jazz singer. We’l...
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
The Great American Songbook is chockablock with antiquated notions of gender roles, but a few songs flip the script. This week, we explore songs of...
- Added: Feb 08, 2022
- Length: 59:00
From: David Condos
Before the pandemic, a group of older Nashvillians founded a free line dancing class at the Hadley Park Community Center. The bonds they’ve formed ...
Bought by iPondr
- Added: Oct 01, 2020
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 1
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
Singer Blossom Dearie could be coy, cute, heartbreaking funny, and intimate, and she exhibited all of it on her six albums for Verve Records in the...
Bought by KMUW
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Radio Curious revisits a conversation with David Ebershoff, author “Pasadena,” a book about storytelling through the life of Linda Stamp, a young g...
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 29:01
Midnight Zephyr, recorded by Marc Blackwell, is song #4120 written by Larry W Jones, the Kingwood Kowboy.
- Added: Feb 23, 2015
- Length: 03:37
