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Caption: Segar Ellis
Ellis was first a jazz pianist and later jazz vocalist who recorded numerous sides with the Dorsey Brothers, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, and many other...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2012
  • Length: 58:54
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Mutables live in Studio K.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 09, 2012
  • Length: 13:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Teenage Moods live in Studio K.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 09, 2012
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Leisure Birds live in Studio K.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 09, 2012
  • Length: 11:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Awkward Bodies live in Studio K.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 09, 2012
  • Length: 13:57
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Culture Queue, we focus on codes and the keys to cracking them. We start with producers Noel Clark and Mitch Skinner discovering how t...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 30, 2012
  • Length: 31:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: 1920s dancers
Remember Dick Powell the actor? How about Dick Powell the jazz banjo player? He’s just one of many obscure early jazz performers heard in this pro...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 58:55
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Vocalist and songwriter Gretchen Parlato's music is introspective and crafted with a knowing touch. Winner of the 2004 Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocalis...

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


  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 15:06
  • Purchases: 4
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This week on Culture Queue, we take you outside your comfort zone to deliver stories from fringe society. Producer Mitch Skinner returns from San D...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2012
  • Length: 28:55
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George Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, has created countless festivals worldwide and can be connected to every important jazz musician ...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Jul 31, 2012
  • Length: 15:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bessie Smith
The blues melded with jazz long before the first recordings in the late teens. Although the music was, at least at first, structured on the 8 and 1...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2012
  • Length: 58:54
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Homage to Astor Piazzolla featuring Catherine Wilson and Ensemble Vivant hosted by Keith Horner.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 58:45
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Midnight Evils live in Studio K.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2012
  • Length: 08:45
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Flavor Crystals live in Studio K.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 22, 2012
  • Length: 19:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Mally live in Studio K.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 22, 2012
  • Length: 10:33
  • Purchases: 1
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Episode 1 of 'Sessions at the Cactus'. Roots rock legend, Alejandro Escovedo and indie folk duo, The Civil Wars take the stage at the Cactus.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
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Give a listen to some of those very hot bands of the 1920s. You may not recognize many of the names, but that doesn't lessen their impact.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
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Me and My Arrow live in Studio K.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 12, 2012
  • Length: 15:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Nightosaur live in Studio K.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 12, 2012
  • Length: 18:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Live at KDHX: Langhorne Slim and the Law 6/8/12, and Kelly Hogan 6/7/12

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jul 04, 2012
  • Length: 28:46
  • Purchases: 1
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In the Erotic Memoir Novel LAURA MEETS JEFFREY written from two perspectives - Jeffrey Michaelson and Laura Bradley detail their lives during the N...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 11:42
Caption: Apollo Theater, Chicago, 1920s
It’s Windy Hear! But, in the late 1920s and early ‘40s, much of that wind was coming from the great horns of musicians like Ruben Reeves and Louis...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Dial-Up live in Studio K.

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 06:32
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"Looking in a Different Light"

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:16
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery (March 6, 1923 – June 15, 1968)
TWO HANDS, A GUITAR & GENIUS = WES MONTGOMERY is a one hour program that looks at the musical life of Jazz guitarist WES MONTGOMERY. The ten record...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, and KSRQ


  • Added: May 02, 2012
  • Length: 52:35
  • Purchases: 3