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A Little Dinner Music

From: Radio K

Of our five senses, sound and taste might not seem to have that much in common. But if you ever find yourself at a fast food joint that blasts the...

Added: May 12, 2012
Length: 05:12

Episode 3: A Poet's Tree

From: Astoria Sojourner
Series: Handmade Radio

Caption: "Whispers" Tendrilic wires > Reaching for infinity > Connect me to you, Credit: Eric Bishop 2012

In celebration of National Poetry Month, 12 poets are featured with their original works. Stori Sojourner stitches the poems together to create the...

Bought by KUT

Added: Apr 30, 2012
Length: 25:10
Purchases: 1

JazzStories: Rudresh Mahanthappa

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"And he said we’ll I don’t want to play any of those 7s or 11s or 13s or 22s. I don’t want to play any of that stuff that you’re writing. He said b...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WNCU

Added: Apr 20, 2012
Length: 11:32
Purchases: 3

JazzStories: Gary Burton and Julian Lage

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"There’s an interesting thing that happens. You prepare a piece. You rehearse it. It sounds perfect...And you go out and play it on the first night...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, and PRX Remix

Added: Apr 20, 2012
Length: 16:42
Purchases: 4

JazzStories: Barry Harris and Billy Higgins – The Majesty of Tap

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

In the 40s, jazzmen came of age on the stages of dance halls. Pianist Barry Harris and drummer Billy Higgins capture the view from those stages.

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, KFOK-LPFM and more

Added: Apr 20, 2012
Length: 10:44
Purchases: 6

JazzStories: Bill Frisell

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"I had moved to New York and spent a couple of years here scuffling around. I was getting a little discouraged, playing a lot of weddings. It wasn'...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP

Added: Apr 20, 2012
Length: 13:41
Purchases: 3

The Emotion Roadmap - Learning from each other about feelings

From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel

We had five listeners call and share their experiences learning about how to deal with feelings, their own and others. They all got some help with ...

Added: Mar 26, 2012
Length: 51:46

Steve Boman's "Film School"

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords

A career journalist takes on and eventually overcomes artistic, academic, and health challenges and lives to tell about it in "Film School."

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Dec 22, 2011
Length: 26:06
Purchases: 1

Episode 9: Strawberries or Bussed

From: Sam Dingman
Series: The Taxi Tapes

A group of drunken Brits guides Sam directly into the path of an oncoming MTA bus, with unexpected results. This episode is an excerpt from the li...

Added: Dec 19, 2011
Length: 06:34

Peter Smith's "A Cavalcade of Lesser Horrors" is the subject

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords

Advertising industry veteran Peter Smith explores life's minor trauma's in his sometimes humorous, sometimes raw "A Cavalcade of Lesser Horrors."

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Dec 16, 2011
Length: 19:06
Purchases: 1

JazzStories: Joe Henderson

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"You’ve got this reservoir of ideas are roaming around in your brain and you want to put them down on paper and pass those out to the trumpet playe...

Bought by WMOT, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM

Added: Dec 13, 2011
Length: 14:37
Purchases: 5

Rosanne Cash: Live from Zone C

From: Joyride Media

Intimate acoustic set by Rosanne Cash and her husband, John Leventhal in their living room (aka Zone C). Includes exclusive live recordings of son...

Bought by KPSQ-LP, KOSU, NPR Illinois, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more

Added: Nov 21, 2011
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 10

JazzStories: Percy Heath

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"There’s a certain thing on the bandstand that every now and then – not every night, not every composition – there comes a point when the collectiv...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, and 90.5 WSNC

Added: Nov 11, 2011
Length: 15:31
Purchases: 5

Holidays Moonwalk

From: Patrick Fosso

Holidays Moonwalk is the new release by Golden Boy (Fospassin) the ultimate songwriter for the 21st century.Are you ready for holidays?

Added: Nov 02, 2011
Length: 03:52

JazzStories: Henry Threadgill

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

“You always have to have boundaries. If you don’t have boundaries, you don’t have art. There has to be controls and boundaries. Otherwise when does...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WNCU

Added: Oct 25, 2011
Length: 12:15
Purchases: 3

1972: The Birth of Pong and the Rise of Video Games

From: Action Speaks Radio

Caption: A snapshot of Pong , Credit: Google Images

Pong introduced America to video games and now there seems to be no turning back. Is this why we don't leave our houses anymore?

Bought by Radio Catskill, KUNM, WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and more

Added: Oct 24, 2011
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 11

JazzStories: Wynton Marsalis

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"For me I always grew up watching my father and other jazz musicians, they never played for that many people, they were always struggling. They did...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, PRX Remix and more

Added: Oct 14, 2011
Length: 18:54
Purchases: 6

Jazz Tap: Stumpy Cromer and Jared Grimes

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

“And then we used to play hockey in the street, roller skate hockey. So while I was up there playing roller skate hockey I was moving my feet aroun...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and PRX Remix

Added: Sep 02, 2011
Length: 13:21
Purchases: 3

JazzStories: Frank Foster

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

He said don’t have too many pregnant 19ths in there. Keep it simple…..Basie was as much as an arranger as any of the arrangers who actually wrote d...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC and more

Added: Sep 02, 2011
Length: 07:43
Purchases: 6

JazzStories: Jose James

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

“Music was unexpected. I always wanted to be a writer and I still do. I was always turned on by words, by the way people could use words and that k...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, PRX Remix, and KFOK-LPFM

Added: Jul 28, 2011
Length: 11:59
Purchases: 5

Crowd-sourcing Biological Solutions Through Gaming

From: Sarah Lilley

A web-based video game called FoldIt uses crowd-sourcing in the hopes of solving some very big -- er, tiny -- biological problems.

Added: Jul 22, 2011
Length: 06:17

NEA Jazz Master Orrin Keepnews

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

Five Moments with producer and 2011 NEA Jazz Master Orrin Keepnews.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, WICR, WART FM and more

Added: Jul 19, 2011
Length: 08:29
Purchases: 10

NEA Jazz Master Johnny Mandel

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

Six Moments with 2011 NEA Jazz Master, composer, and arranger Johnny Mandel.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, WART FM, WUSF and more

Added: Jul 19, 2011
Length: 09:00
Purchases: 7

JazzStories: Ron Carter

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"I was on my way to being a decent bass player, and at that time there were a lot of clubs in New York, a lot of recordings going on....talking to ...

Bought by KMUW, WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM and more