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To honor the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we take a trip to Green-Wood cemetery to the grave of Sarah Smith Garnet, one of Brooklyn's B...
Bought by WCNY and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 12:56
- Purchases: 2
From walking a horse 6 miles on a rail trail, to transporting 24 sheep in the back of a Chrysler minivan, these young farmers will find a way to ge...
- Added: Oct 08, 2020
- Length: 53:59
The current uprisings, which are beginning to threaten the status quo of policing in the United States and bringing the demands of abolition into t...
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 58:22
Music from one of the 20th century's most influential guitarists, heard with Benny Goodman and others.
- Added: Jul 23, 2020
- Length: 58:58
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes two of the most prominent and respected names in the worlds of pop, rock,...
Bought by KLRE, Angelica Community Radio, KTRL, KMUN, KSRQ and more
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 39
A jazz tribute to Juneteenth, the African-American holiday marking the end of slavery, with music from Paul Robeson and Count Basie, John Coltrane,...
- Added: Jun 11, 2020
- Length: 59:00
In the 1960s Herbie Hancock seemed to be everywhere on the jazz scene, recording both as a leader for Blue Note and as a sideman with Miles Davis a...
- Added: Apr 02, 2020
- Length: 58:59
We take a look at Ella Fitzgerald in 1957, one of the singer's busiest and most memorable years on record.
- Added: Mar 21, 2020
- Length: 59:04
Music of the pianist and composer-arranger who left his stamp on the bebop and hardbop era, as well as an interview with Dameron biographer Paul Co...
- Added: Sep 23, 2019
- Length: 59:00
Tribute to Aretha Franklin
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.
- Added: Aug 16, 2019
- Length: 57:01
- Purchases: 1
In our new special series, we hear the personal stories of transgender people of faith and where they are finding spiritual homes among America's r...
Bought by WPSU
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Tom Cairns provides an excellent full hour selection of Good Time Blues.
- Added: Feb 25, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
RaMell Ross talks sacred moments, turning reality into a dreamscape, and why there’s no such thing as a documentary.
- Added: Feb 18, 2019
- Length: 19:30
Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Join Tom Cairns for one hour of good old Georgia Blues from the 1920's to the 1940's.
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
Join Tom Cairns for one hour of good old Georgia Blues from the 1920's to the 1940's.
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
Join Tom Cairns for one hour of good old Country Blues from the 1920's to the current day.
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
Tenor saxophonist Benny Golson has penned some of the most notable compositions of the modern jazz era, including “Whisper Not,” “Along Came Betty,...
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 59:00
Herbie Nichols died in obscurity in 1963, but over the past two decades his luminous compositions have made him a celebrated figure in modern jazz....
- Added: Dec 21, 2018
- Length: 59:01
Two of longtime bandleader Gerald Wilson's finest orchestras--his progressive, modernistic 1940s outfit and his 1960s West Coast band.
- Added: Aug 31, 2018
- Length: 59:00
At the dawn of the 1960s pianist Freddie Redd made several albums for the Blue Note label filled with taut, punchy hardbop compositions.
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 59:05
This time, we profile Eddie Boyd, who recorded the only national chart hit for Chicago's J.O.B. label, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 18, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Before he was 10 years old, Willie Bosket had skipped school, started fires, picked pockets, and stolen a car. A psychiatrist at Bellevue called hi...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 26:45
- Purchases: 3
One of the world's most successful music producers got his start as a jazz trumpeter, arranger, and bandleader. We'll hear recordings he made in th...
- Added: Mar 11, 2018
- Length: 59:01
This time, we profile Sleepy John Estes, who ran into a little difficulty making his way to a recording session in New York City, this week in 1938.
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 03:29
