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Nique Love Rhodes
We have a social entrepreneur of a different kind, she is a rapper! You will have an opportunity to learn how the social and bus...
- Added: Jul 06, 2017
- Length: 39:03
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcome vocal powerhouse from Austin, Texas Ruthie Foster plus East Nashville base...
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- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 10
Only recently did Mayyadda make the decision to perform professionally. But she’s come a long way in a short time, playing prestigious clubs such a...
- Added: Aug 09, 2016
- Length: 07:50
This program visits with the early New Orleans musicians. After all, their creativity is what started jazz on the road to popularity.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Princess Shaw talks imagination, fighting through the storm, and the best day(s) of her life.
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 16:02
Here are a few selections from the archives of early jazz representing some of the talented musicians who, for whatever reason, remained in the sha...
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- Added: Dec 02, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Gregory Pardlo, the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, debunks the theory that African American fathers are disinterested parents. Pardl...
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- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 29:08
- Purchases: 1
Two powerhouse saxophonists of early jazz are heard in this show: Benny Carter, alto and Coleman Hawkins, tenor.
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Aug 21, 2015
- Length: 04:15
Sam White saw potential in the drama of a struggling city — a perfect setting for Shakespeare's plays.
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 19:51
2015 NEA Jazz Master George Coleman shares stories about playing with NEA Heritage Fellow, BB King, falling in love with Charlie Parker, and learni...
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- Added: Apr 29, 2015
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 12
In this episode, Rebecca McInroy is joined by Dr. Coleman Hutchinson, Dr. Dina Berry, and Steve Wilson to discuss the some of the creative decision...
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 59:03
Although mostly forgotten today, Hartzell "Tiny" Parham is known as one of the pioneers of Chicago style jazz of the 1920s
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
Officer Denise Cookie Boulden is a Detective for the Seattle Police Department.
She’s well known for her work with youth and the elderly.
Detecti...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 06:31
Ferdinand “Jelly Roll Morton” LaMothe was among the elite, privileged few of the Creole population of New Orleans. Although the heyday of the city ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
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...
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- Added: Sep 17, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Produced by JAZZ HOUSE KIDS, a nonprofit jazz education and performance organization, the 2014 MONTCLAIR JAZZ FESTIVAL features Christian McBride, ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 01:58:01
- Purchases: 3
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...
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- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: A. Curtis Farrow In Conversation With Another Great Performer
Series: A. Curtis Farrow In Conversation With Another Great Performer
Emmy Award Winning Producer & Director, A. Curtis Farrow In Conversation With Another Great Performer, Ms. Cissy Houston.
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 20:00
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...
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- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
The review, Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds of 1928, opened at the Liberty Theatre on 42nd Street in May of that year.
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- Added: Apr 16, 2014
- Length: 58:58
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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.
- Added: Mar 13, 2014
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 2
She billed herself as “The Queen of the Blues.” But, technically, she wasn’t a blues singer.
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- Added: Jan 12, 2014
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
In Duke Ellington's Eulogy to Billy Strayhorn he wrote, "His greatest virtue, I think, was his honesty--not only to others, but to himself." As we ...
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- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
