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Caption: Remastered Bebop 78s on Jazz-O-Rama, Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
Early Bebop fills the air when the remastered 78 RPM records of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis,Tadd Dameron and Dexter Gordon are hea...

Bought by KTXK, Spokane Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Pulitzer Prize winning poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren., Credit: Vanderbilt University
In 1964, Southern man-of-letters Robert Penn Warren traveled the country with an old reel-to-reel tape recorder and spoke with dozens of men and wo...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Series host Martha Burk interviews Dr. Myiesha Taylor, prominent emergency room physician and advocate working with the Disney corporation to inte...

Bought by WMMT and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 2
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Series host Martha Burk interviews Dr. Avis Jones-Deweever, Executive Director of the National Council of Negro Women, the nation's oldest coalitio...

Bought by WMMT, WRIR, and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jan 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:25
  • Purchases: 3
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Fill out your holiday schedule with this contemporary radio drama.

Bought by WUKY, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WUKY, MPR News Stations, WUKY and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 54:42
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: George Cables
Veteran pianist George Cables still wows audiences.

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Infant mortality rates in Michigan are better than they used to be, but still not good enough. Seven out of every 1,000 babies born in Michigan w...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 51:01
Caption: Steve & Dee Dee!, Credit: Dee Dee Bridgewater
After months of intermittent phone calls, text messages and emails Dee Dee Bridgewater finally made her debut appearance live in studio on the Ste...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:57

  • Added: Aug 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:59:07
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In the first installment of an 18-month series on the nation's high school dropout rate, Gwen Ifill sits down with Academy Award-winning actor Denz...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Aug 10, 2012
  • Length: 08:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Lets go back to 20 plus years ago and discover some of the hidden soul gems of the period. Notably cuts from Charlie Wilson, Live Stevie Wonder an...

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:57:43
  • Purchases: 1
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The 2nd quarter of the soundtrack to your soul was a busy one! We shared the words and music of nine artists talking about everything in their live...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:57:50
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The 2nd quarter of the soundtrack to your soul was a busy one! We shared the words and music of nine artists talking about everything in their live...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2012
  • Length: 02:58:38
Caption: Steve & Jeff Lorber Backstage In Las Vegas, Credit: Kim Linzy
More essential listening to the best fusion in the universe rolling cuts by Steps Ahead, Ronnie Laws and a killer vocal interpretation of the Ramse...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Jul 07, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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The Latin Journey continues with patriarch of the E family-Pete Escovedo talking congas, timbales and mentoring his highly influential family! A Ca...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:56
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A mini milestone has been achieved as we celebrate our 21st edition of the 2012 Series with smoking hot tunes and a live phone interview with jazz ...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:37
Caption: Steve Edwards/Host Producer, Credit: Steve Edwards
The Fusion Special is where the combination of Soul meets Jazz and Funk! It peaked in the early 1970`s and was spearheaded by artists and groups fr...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, Radio Catskill, and WDCB


  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 59:26
  • Purchases: 3
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This edition continues to display the best soul music on the planet with musical tributes to the late Donna Summer and Washington DC`s godfather of...

  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:49
Caption: Steve Edwards/Host, Credit: Steve Edwards
For lovers of the live stuff, this in concert performance series is essential to your musical well being! A global journey of recorded performance...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 59:18
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Steve & Stevie Wonder, Credit: Sheree Edwards
This is as good as it gets! Bringing in the new year with a PHOTO -OP after a mega performance by soul music royalty Mr Stevie Wonder! Hear back st...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2012
  • Length: 54:09
Caption: Host/Producer, Credit: Steve Edwards
Its a musical celebration with the songs that took us through the 1st Quarter of the 2012 series.Soul In Jazz Pt 2 and The Final Of Our UK Spotligh...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:18
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More essential listening as Mellow Moments 2 rolls in with the soulful blues vibes of Shemekia Copeland, daughter of bluesman Johnny Copeland plu...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2012
  • Length: 53:37
Caption: Host/producer, Credit: Steve Edwards
This hour of the Steve Edwards Soul show displays its primary focus on the music and highlights some of the classic stablemates in british soul mus...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2012
  • Length: 59:17
Caption: Coretta Scott King, Credit: NNDB
Equal Time Series Host Martha Burk explores the life of Coretta Scott King with biographer Barbara Reynolds, a founding editor of USA Today. Burk...

Bought by Talking Information Center, KRPS, 90.5 WSNC, WAMU, and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 56:48
  • Purchases: 5