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Caption: Leonard Slatkin, Credit: Chris Lee
Leonard Slatkin talks about the DSO

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:22
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This week on the show: You just gotta want it? Is there anything you'd like to change about the way you're living life? If we're honest with ours...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 15, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Intercourse and the art of communication - People who are good with emojis have more sex, but hold your emoji horses befor...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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With over 30 new releases appearing in our mailbox this week, here’s entire show of them. Results of research AFTER playing them: Vocalist Kurt Ell...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WMOT, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 8
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Returned from vacation with an overload of new releases, we must hear Bud Powell first. Speaking of pianists, 11-time Grammy nominee Kenny Barron i...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WMOT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WYAP, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 8
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Diversity, Cross-Cultural Music, Spring Music Festivals, Carl Wiman & Hacksaw Tom host.The LoBros and Heather Hardy represent Tucson Arizona, the l...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
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This week on the show: Let's dive into the world of music. Did you know the Christmas song Silent Night originated in a small Austrian village 20...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Tapping into the science of Oktoberfest!!! Just why DO so many people go to Oktoberfest? And how does nearly 8 million l...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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A man of faith is tested to the limit in Paul Schrader’s latest film, First Reformed. Ethan Hawke plays Reverend Stoller, the minister of a Dutch R...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 04:35
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Spectrum: Marijuana, sex, soccer and sleep - On this week's show: If Marijuana can make old mice brains younger, does that work with humans too?...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jul 04, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Spectrum: Duh, duh duh-duh-duh duh, duh ---- On this week’s show we’re going to be analyzing the song Seven Nation Army, the omnipresent anthem o...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 26, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Mixing old vinyl & brand-new releases is our ploy this week, inspired by a collected donation of amassed LPs by pianists. But to begin we spin clas...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WEJP-LP 107.1, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMOT and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2018
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 8
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Positive circumstances took me to the south in 1998, but it was Sonny Payne who showed me the ropes once I got there. Memphis and the Sun Studio w...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WEJP-LP 107.1, WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Martina Filjak, Credit: martinafiljak.com
We’ll hear from award winning pianists Piotr Anderszewski, Yekwon Sunwoo, and Martina Filjak on today’s What’s New.

Bought by KMUN, KWAX, WETS, KMUN, WETS and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: John Clare and Carlisle Floyd, Credit: Judith Kurnick
We'll hear operatic music by Carlisle Floyd, Michael Nyman, Jennifer Higdon, John Corigliano, Jake Heggie, and John Harbison.

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
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To give our music the edge we call on drummer Stockton Helming from Dallas, the eclecticism continues with former Mingus trumpeter Jack Walrath and...

Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 5
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Similar to a theatrical musical where the story is interrupted with a song, a radio musical has the songs interrupted by a story. Tonight's radi...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 40:31
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From forward-looking trombone with Ray Anderson and inspired happy blues by powerhouse saxophonist Gene Ammons, comes more churchy pianist Ray Brya...

Bought by WJSU, WYAP, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 5
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A true inspiration for jazz networking and blues radio: The “Cookers,” a couple of whom are Donald Harrison and Cecil McBee, comprise a recording a...

Bought by WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WJSU, WYAP, and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 5
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This first glance of a two-hour playlist shows three of the best male scat singers in King Pleasure, Jon Hendricks and Eddie Jefferson. One of Ming...

Bought by WJSU, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 18, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 4
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A fresh sound from TS Monk, rooted in tradition, describes openers for this episode while Lonnie Johnson sings and plays a 1948 hit. Then as if Duk...

Bought by WVBI-LP, KCMJ Community Radio, WYAP, WOUB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 6
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It's blues time, featuring many artists I've seen live. Spending the 2000's going from one blues fest to the next, for a moment I wanted to be a mu...

Bought by WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB, WKAR, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Real bebop bookends the swing and free eras for starters, without playing either. Monk is composer way before he was was known, Illinois Jacquet no...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, WKAR, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: On the air at WGDR-Plainfield/WGDH-Hardwick, doing The Origin Series, Credit: Brian Aust
Part 2 in the Origin Series explores some of the most legendary musicians ever to saw on the strings in the genres of bluegrass, jazz and the slipp...

Bought by Bandon Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:55:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Experience global music without a filter in this mix. A mix made of many styles; from rare South African funk to electro cumbia, New Egyptian pop, ...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:01:18