PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

162 results


Blues America 68 - Billy Boy Arnold
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
Piece image
Harmonica ace Billy Boy Arnold is a prolific recording artist who is one of a handful of musicians still standing to talk about the vibrant and imp...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Blues America 66 - Kim Wilson
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
Piece image
Kim Wilson is the charismatic frontman for America’s quintessential contemporary blues band, the Fabulous Thunderbirds and author of the top 40 bar...

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMXT, Spokane Public Radio, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Blues America 64 - Lil Ed Williams
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
Piece image
Lil Ed Williams is one of a kind. With his trademark Fez hat which symbolizes an African crown and his torturous slide guitar, Lil Ed Williams embo...

Bought by Public Radio East, KRPS, Spokane Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
RDD: Aayan Naim and the Blues
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
Piece image
The Rough Draft Diaries is feeling the blues this week as we hang out with Aayan Naim, leader singer of the blues band, The Good, The Bad, and The ...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 06:04
Blues America 62 - Eric Bibb
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
Piece image
In 2014 he released a critically acclaimed album for the Stony Plain label titled ‘Blues People’ that earned awards and the top position on several...

Bought by Public Radio East and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Blues America 59 - Jontavious Willis
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
Piece image
20 year old Jontavious Willis from Greenville, Georgia is a touring, unrecorded, self-taught mult-instrumentalist who can be seen belting out pre-w...

Bought by Public Radio East and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
NEA Jazz Moments with Saxophonist Pharoah Sanders
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
Piece image
"You can play notes, but if you don't put anything in the notes, that's what it is...just notes." - Pharoah Sanders.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 11
Blues America 52 - Jerry Lawson Project 4
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
Piece image
The Jerry Lawson Legacy Project is an exclusive series for Blues America that explores the history of singing legend Jerry Lawson and the famed Per...

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
160604 Muhammad Ali Tribute
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Mike Marley with his old friend Muhammad Ali and Mike's former employer Don King.
Interrupting my Saturday night music radio show with some words about Muhammad Ali who passed earlier in the day. Ali's impact on me as an 8th gra...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 46:15
Blues America 43 - Francine Reed
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
Piece image
Francine Reed is famous blues singer based in Atlanta. She is best known as the long time regular singing companion of Lyle Lovett and member of Ly...

Bought by Public Radio East, Spokane Public Radio, KDLG, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Inside the World of Deja Rene Carr
From: Paolo Rosen
Piece image
Deje Rene Carr has basically reached the status of local music legend in Pioneer Valley. The catch, she's still in high school.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 05:57
Ginger Commodore Leads a Stevie Wonder Tribute Concert at the Chanhassen Dinner Theater
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Ginger Commodore, Credit: Tom Wallace
Ginger Commodore loves singing, and loves the songs of Stevie Wonder. It'll be two evenings filled with superlatives Feb 12-13, 2016 when she leads...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1513 (Hour 1 & 2) - 01/28/2016
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
Piece image
How do you do, we have over 40 years associated with jazz radio here in the desert southwest. In hour one of this week's national broadcast, guest ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, WYAP, and WOUB


  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 5
How Break Dancing And Hip Hop Saved My Life
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Krubel Amare shows off a head spin in the KUOW studio., Credit: KUOW Photo / Sanda Htyte
RadioActive Youth Media producer Krubel Amare breaks down the true essence of Hip Hop culture, and how it’s impacted himself and the people around ...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 1
Singer-Songwriter Macy Gray
From: Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano
Series: The Dinner Party with Elysabeth Alfano
Piece image
Right before she is about to perform at Chicago City Winery, Singer-Songwriter Macy Gray sits down with the host of The Dinner Party To Go podcast,...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 23:18
Brass Bands
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Rebirth Brass Band, Credit: Mark H. Anbinder
featuring Matt Sakakeeny and the Rebirth Brass Band

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 1
Bay Area Beats: Zena
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Bay Area Beats
Piece image
Zena, from Oakland, is a singer songwriter, visual artist, storyteller – and one of the few women masters of the kora – a West African harp – taugh...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 06:21
John Coltrane on Giant Steps
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
Piece image
"I want to be the force which is truly for good." - John Coltrane in one of his final interviews. In the fall of 1966, John Coltrane was living on ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KZYX, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WDCB, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 6
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1478 (Hour 1 & 2) - 05/28/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
Piece image
Fixing Musical malfunctions like a mechanic, germinating in the workshop and in the grooveyard. Paying particular tribute to a giant of our music B...

Bought by KPVL, WVBI-LP, WOUB, and WYAP


  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 4
George Clinton, AKA Dr. Funkenstein, in his own words
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
Caption: Mysterious detail from the funk-cloning electron microgramatoscope, Credit: Dr. Schulmanstein
If James Brown was the Godfather of Soul, George Clinton remains the undisputed Crown Prince of Funk. Parliament-Funkadelic. Flashlight. The Mothe...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 04:59
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1467 (Hour 1 & 2) - 03/12/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
Piece image
A blistering Lee Morgan on trumpet sets the ambiance for singers Leah Natale, Cecile Hortensia and Mark Murphy, rhythm makers could be Charles Lewi...

Bought by KPVL, WVBI-LP, WOUB, and KVRZ


  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 4
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1463 (Hour 1 & 2) - 02/12/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
Piece image
Contemporary and bluesy attitudes stand up well to good old funky Crusaders music. Dave Brubeck hosts Michael Brecker as Bill Evans to Stan Getz. F...

Bought by WOUB, KVRZ, KPVL, and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 4
Blue Note Records (Ep. 13)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Blue Note saxman Sonny Rollins, Credit: Francis Wolff
In this hour, it's the myth and magic of the label that defined mid-century jazz: Blue Note Records.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WCPN, WVPE, Radio New Zealand and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 28
Show #16: Expressing Ourselves
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Weekday High Podcast '08
Piece image
It?s our last podcast of the summer, and we?re going out with two pieces about self-expression. DaeDae Williams shares a powerful poem about the c...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:52