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6 works, including STILL: A Deserted Plantation; Mark Boozer, piano.
- Added: May 13, 2024
- Length: 56:59
6 works, including STILL: A Deserted Plantation; Mark Boozer, piano.
- Added: May 13, 2024
- Length: 56:59
6 works, including GRIFFES: Japanese Melodies (3) (3) . Perspectives Ensemble.
- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: 57:00
6 works, including GRIFFES: Japanese Melodies (3) (3) . Perspectives Ensemble.
- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: 57:00
This time on The Children's Hour we learn from author and historian Byron Motley about the Negro Baseball Leagues, the only way Black baseball play...
- Added: Feb 18, 2024
- Length: 58:00
From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 59:03
One-hour special (59:00 with 5-minute news hole), Echoes of a Coup, telling the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history -- the 189...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNYC, WUNC, WYPR, WFDD and more
- Added: Jan 17, 2024
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 25
A centennial tribute to Max Roach, who set the pace for modern jazz drumming and became an outspoken activist for civil rights.
Bought by WSKG, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WWNO, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUAT and more
- Added: Jan 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
A look at the historic 1938 Carnegie Hall concert and its 1939 follow up, featuring performances by Count Basie, Benny Goodman, and others.
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Welcome to “Unveiling the Ancestors,” a radio special that sheds light on who we are today by looking at WHO came before us. I'm your host, Anne Ho...
- Added: Nov 24, 2023
- Length: 53:10
Dr. Louise Toppin examines the life and music of trailblazing composer Florence Price.
- Added: Aug 28, 2023
- Length: 59:00
In the years following World War II, Black American jazz musicians such as Dexter Gordon, Kenny Clarke, and Bud Powell took up residence in France,...
- Added: Jul 06, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Ellington kept his orchestra together in a changing economic landscape, continuing to create memorable music and expanding his compositional horizons.
- Added: Jun 08, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Eric Bibb's musical career spans 50 years. His 2023 Album "Ridin' " is a collection of great words for our world today.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: May 23, 2023
- Length: 59:58
- Purchases: 1
The story of how Ed Dwight went from being an Air Force captain to almost becoming the first Black astronaut in the world.
- Added: May 19, 2023
- Length: 16:36
The faulty—and fatal—race logic of an 18th century yellow fever epidemic.
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 40:50
Otis Hicks was a somewhat unsung Louisiana blues man who was an inspiration to another Louisianan who would one day become world famous!
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WLPR
- Added: Apr 11, 2023
- Length: 01:00:08
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Feb 14, 2023
- Length: 59:44
- Purchases: 1
In late 1966 the fiercely individualistic singer and pianist Nina Simone signed with RCA Records and continued her genre-bending explorations of ja...
- Added: Feb 09, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Black Americans have been major stars of the musical theater since 1906. Who was the first black Broadway star? What was the first all-black musica...
- Added: Feb 05, 2023
- Length: 01:58:00
The first in a recurring series of shows explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Again...
- Added: Jan 20, 2023
- Length: 59:02
This hour explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Against Tomorrow, released the same ...
Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.
- Added: Jan 20, 2023
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
Jazz recordings in honor of the civil-rights leader made by James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and others.
- Added: Jan 05, 2023
- Length: 59:00
He was ranked as #43 in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of all time. That is a great legacy to leave behind.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 59:49
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 23, 2022
- Length: 57:14
- Purchases: 1
