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Brendon Hamilton: Art Is One of the Ways We Can Express the Human Condition
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Brendon Hamilton, Credit: Shefik
Remorse - Brendon Hamilton has been writing and performing since he was a young child. Influenced by some of rock, pop, and R&B's greatest recordin...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:44
Neddy Smith: Evangelize the Truth of My Heart
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Neddy Smith, Credit: Shefik
Faith - Neddy Smith is a professional musician and CEO at NedGJean International. He composes and writes his music, not only in a traditional style...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:40
Sonny Turner: The Lesson in Life You Learn
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Sonny Turner, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Bill...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 01:19
Sonny Turner: Blood, Sweat, and Tears
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Sonny Turner, Credit: Shefik
Love - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard Ho...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:42
M.C. El Bee: Not Changing That for Anyone
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: M.C. El Bee, Credit: Shefik
Identity - Author Larry Boatright, also known as M.C. El Bee in the hip-hop community, talks about the birth and propagation of hip-hop in the 1970...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:36
#20-25 The Talk
From: All Classical Public Media
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Damien Geter’s The Talk: Instructions for Black Children When They Interact with the Police

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
Live From Hill: Lawrence Brownlee and Eric Owens
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Caption: Lawrence Brownlee and Eric Owens
Tenor Lawrence Brownlee and bass-baritone Eric Owens in concert at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The preshow "Continuing In Their Footst...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 03:12:17
I Am Not A White Girl
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Fall 2019
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I’m fifteen and a student at Epic Academy. My podcast is about how stereotypes against your race can affect what music people think you listen to, ...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2019
  • Length: 05:11
RDD: Honoring Cliff
From: WGTE Public Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Clifford Murphy, one of Toledo's Jazz Icons known for playing in his jazz group, The Murphy's and his Jazz Cafe, Murphy's Place, passed away over t...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 06:10
You Will Hear Me
From: Dominique Johnson
Series: Come As You Are
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Black opera singers have always contributed to the art form. In this Come As You Are we highlight their performances, featuring famous opera star L...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Jan 04, 2019
  • Length: 01:51:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #09: A Singer’s Life
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Leigh Hamilton is a dramatic soprano who has been based in Germany for more than 17 years. This episode follows Leigh’s story, which takes her from...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 23:25
Robin Barnes: Songbird of New Orleans
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Robin Barnes
Robin Barnes was born and raised in the Lower 9th Ward, shuttling between her parents’ and grandparents’ houses and singing the songs they liked to...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
Charles Neville: "Loving Kindness is My Religion"
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Saxophonist Charles Neville
Saxophonist Charles Neville was born into one of New Orleans' most famous musical families, and enjoyed a career spanning more than 60 years before...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Dec 14, 2017
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 1
Rufus McKenzie: From the Dog's Bowl
From: Music Maker Relief Foundation
Series: Music Maker Minute - Race in U.S.
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Rufus McKenzie of Perry, GA shares a tale of degradation in exchange for a meal.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
After Living Through 'Hell,' Dropping Happy Beats
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Zaire Huruku, Credit: Brigitta Greene
As a refugee from "Africa's World War," Zaire Huruku arrived in Minnesota unable to speak English. Years later, he's more than fluent. These days, ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2017
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 2
Porgy and Bess
From: WQXR
Series: For the Record
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In this episode of For the Record, Tom and Julian go behind the scenes of the Houston Grand Opera's 1976 recording of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Th...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 1
NEA Jazz Moments with Saxophonist Archie Shepp
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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As a composer and a horn player, Archie Shepp is a consummate innovator, never ceasing to push music forward.

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


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 12
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
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1473 (Hour 1 & 2) - 04/23/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Blues and Bossa by design this time, from Joe Turner to Basie to the Brothers Vaughan. New Orleans, Detroit and Kansas City are visited, then jazz ...

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


  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 4
John Coltrane (Ep. 10)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Sax titan John Coltrane
In this hour, it's the life and legend of John Coltrane—from his rural North Carolina roots to his place as one of jazz's most spiritual men and mu...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, KZYX, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 34
Jazz and the Visual Arts (Ep. 9)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: "Out Chorus" by jazz painter Romare Bearden, 1979-1980.
You can't listen to a painting or see a song. But that doesn't mean there aren't really interesting places where the worlds of jazz and art overlap...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WCPN, KHNS and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 27
Louis Armstrong (Ep. 4)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Satchmo in 1960.
In this hour, it's a look at the life and music of Louis Armstrong with the good people of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, located in Louis' form...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KMUN, WGBH Radio Boston, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
Nina Simone (Ep. 2)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Nina Simone, the "High Priestess of Soul"
In this hour, it's the life and music of Nina Simone—from her roots as a gospel and classical musician to her place as one of jazz's fiercest voice...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, WCPN, KMUN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 38
Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come
From: Devon Strolovitch
Series: Inside the National Recording Registry
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Sonny Rollins, John Litweiler, and Denardo Coleman tell the story of this groundbreaking 1959 album, selected for the National Recording Registry i...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, PRX Remix, and KGLT


  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 4
A Day In The Life...Of Joel Washington
From: Lacy Scarmana
Caption: Joel Washington painted this portrait of jazz musician Wes Montgomery, which hangs in the Indiana Memorial Union., Credit: Lacy Scarmana
Some people drop everything to pursue a dream. Painter Joel Washington, however, keeps his day job to fuel his passion.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 05:34