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Hour 12: Beyond Each Shining Sea
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
Caption: Host Al Jarreau and producer Jacquie Gales Webb, Credit: Jacquie Gales Webb
Jazz music is an indigenous American art form, but if you listen closely you will hear elements of Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Carribean...

Bought by WJSU, KECG, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPVM 103.7, WFIU and more


  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 11: Jazz Singing and Civil Rights
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
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This program examines jazz singing as a means of social protest. Artists such as Nnena Freelon, Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Louis Armstrong, Al Hibb...

Bought by WJSU, KECG, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPVM 103.7, KZYX and more


  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 24
Hour 10: On the Road and In the Club
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
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Jazz singers tell it like it really is. Today's singers and yesterday's tell of their experiences, joys, trials and tribulations performing this mo...

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  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 23
Hour 9: It's Our World...Sometimes
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
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Jazz singing has always benefited from the innovations and sensitivity of women...from trailblazers Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaugh...

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  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 7: Scat, Bebop, Vocalese, and the Voice as an Instrument
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
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With comments from Louis Armstrong, Anita O'Day, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Mark Murphy, and Kurt Elling, this program will trace the evolution of the in...

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  • Added: May 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 23
Hour 6: Ballads
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
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From Billie Holiday's soulful laments to Johnny Hartman's romantic ballads, jazz singers have used their interpretive powers to express the delight...

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  • Added: May 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 23
Hour 5: With a Little Help from My Friends
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
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Jazz singing is usually a very singular art, with individual artists fastidiously honing their deeply personal styles and approaches. But, there is...

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  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 24
Hour 4: What is Jazz Singing?
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
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The talents of jazz singing legends Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McCrae, and Sarah Vaughan help us understand improvisa...

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  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 24
Hour 3: Straight Out of the Church
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
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From early spirituals to gospel to blues to jazz, singing as an expression of deep emotion evolved, with the various strains blending into each oth...

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  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 23
Hour 2: Saturday Night Function
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
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Jazz was born amidst revelry and ribaldry. Jazz vocals have, from the beginning, dealt with the earthier side of life. Artists such as Dakota Stato...

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  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 26
Hour 1: Steeped in the Blues
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
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Over the years the blues has influenced countless jazz vocalists. In the program, Big Joe Turner, Joe Williams, Lou Rawls, Billie Holiday, Etta Jon...

Bought by WJSU, KECG, WPVM 103.7, KSRQ, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 31
Jazz Singers Generic 30 Second Promo
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
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This is 30 second promo for "Jazz Singers," a thirteen-hour series hosted by award-winning singer Al Jarreau. "Jazz Singers" illuminates every styl...

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 14
Jazz Musician Terence Blanchard on composing an opera
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Terence Blanchard, Credit: Cedric Angeles
In this podcast Terence Blanchard talks about bringing the sounds of blues and jazz to his opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones, his long collaboration w...

Bought by WILL, RADIOLEX, KZUM, Spokane Public Radio, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Ashleigh Gordon celebrates Black classical music.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ashleigh Gordon, Credit: Robert Torres Photography
Violist Ashleigh Gordon is the co-founder and artistic/executive director of Castle of our Skins—a music initiative in Boston that celebrates Black...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
NL 22-09: Swing It Loud: Duke Ellington's Early Black Pride Music, 2/21/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, there was the music of Duke Ellington . Born and raised in Washington, D.C. at the t...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
Celebrating the late great pianist Hank Jones
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Hank Jones, Credit: Tom Pich
In celebration of Black History month, we mined the archives and revisited our interview with the late pianist and NEA Jazz Master Hank Jones.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 4
A wide-ranging talk with 2022 NEA Jazz Master Donald Harrison
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Donald Harrison, Credit: Courtesy of Donald Harrison
Saxophonist, cultural activist, educator and 2022 NEA Jazz Master Donald Harrison talks about jazz's rich diversity and its roots in New Orleans' ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 4
NL 22-07: Diggin' Diz: A Portrait Of Dizzy Gillespie, 2/7/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Diggin' Diz: A Portrait Of Dizzy Gillespie

  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
Mavis Staples' Soul: A Celebration (Single Hour Version)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Mavis Staples
A music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 1940’s, into ...

Bought by WJCT, KUHF, WABE, WVIA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 25
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #145 - Mavis Staples' Soul: A Celebration (Hour 2 of 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Mavis Staples
Hour 2 of a music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 194...

Bought by KFSK, KNCT FM, Capital Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, KSJE and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Swing It Loud: Duke Ellington’s Early Black-Pride Music
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, Ellington was writing music that celebrated African-American culture, personalities,...

Bought by WJCT, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KTXK and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
Portraits In Black: Jazz Tributes To African-American Heroes
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
Caption: Jackie Robinson
Music tributes to African-American figures such as Paul Robeson and Joe Louis from Count Basie, Clifford Jordan, Charles Mingus, and others.

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  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
Black Vocal Harmony Groups of the 1930s & 40s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A hour-long program of jazz music, exploring the music of African-American singing ensembles in the decades of the Great Depression and the Second ...

Bought by Radio New Zealand, WEZU, and WNCU


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
We Shall Overcome: Civil-Rights Jazz
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Black History Special A one-hour program of jazz music, exploring the connection between jazz and civil rights in 20th-century America.

Bought by KALW, WLRH, Morehead State Public Radio, KLCC, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
Say It Loud: Black-Pride Soul Jazz
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Black History Special A one-hour program of jazz music, exploring the black-pride movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Perfect for Black Hi...

Bought by WNMU-FM, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WMOT and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10