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Charlie Parr: Charlie Parr
From: KQAL
Series: The Sound
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Today on the The Sound, we're joined by folk blues artist Charlie Parr. Parr, who lives in Duluth, has an immeasurable presence in the Minnesota mu...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 54:09
Full Moon Hacksaw #1766 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12-03-2020
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Diggin’ the scene and behaving ourselves, we celebrate three separate 100-year birthdays: Blakey, Brubeck, Bird. For Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers w...

Bought by KRZA, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WYAP, WOUB, KJZX-Austin and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 8
Full Moon Hacksaw #1753 (Hour 1 & 2) - 09-02-2020
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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From Eddie Palmieri’s latest to a vinyl tribute to the greatest vocal trio ever, Lambert Hendricks and Ross, the last surviving member Annie Ross p...

Bought by KAAD-LP, KRZA, KJZX-Austin, WOUB, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 8
Dispatch 345 - Bakra Mania
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A goat from FSA Entertainment's YouTube channel, Credit: Fahad Zariwala FSA Entertainment
At Bakra Mania, a goat dealership in Mumbai Fahad Zariwala runs the youtube channel FSA Entertainment which showcases many goat gems and “India’s C...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Full Moon Hacksaw #1749 (Hour 1 & 2) - 08-06-2020
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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From every decade 1950s to now (twenty-otts excepted some reason) we cull our vinyl and digital this edition, beginning with Supersax playing Charl...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, GCR (Global Community Radio), WYAP, WOUB and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 9
From a P.O. Box
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
A tarnished brass key, a small locked box, a sequence of magical numbers, a charmless old block building in the desert. It is here that we visit in...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Radio-586-AZ-Roots-04-22-to-04-28-20-show-348
From: KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
Series: Radio 586 AZ Roots
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Social distancing picks part two hosted by Jerry Donato. Music for self-isolation picks for this episode come from Joey DeFrancesco, a some-time Ar...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
Never the Twain Shall Meet
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We've all been dreaming a lot more than usual, or so it seems. Maybe we're just remembering our dreams during this strange time. Maybe we're just s...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw #1668 (Hour 1 & 2) - 04-09-2020
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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We have lost trumpeter Wallace Roney at age 59 to coronavirus. We feature his playing with Tony Williams, and as one of the few to solo alongside M...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, WEJP-LP 107.1, WYAP, WMOT, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 9
Full Moon Hacksaw #1730 (Hour 1 & 2) - 03-26-2020
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Long-time sponsor Gifts Anon (two words on Facebook) felt it wise to keep our annual remote broadcast scheduled from Scottsdale Arizona, despite th...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KHNS, WYAP, WEJP-LP 107.1, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 12
Full Moon Hacksaw #1724 (Hour 1 & 2) - 02-13-2020
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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We’re thinking of Basie this week, Swinging the Blues in tribute by pianist Gene Harris. Partially indoctrinated, next it’s the Boogie Blues with G...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KJZX-Austin, WEJP-LP 107.1, KRZA, WMOT and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 8
Full Moon Hacksaw #1720 (Hour 1 & 2) - 01/16/20120
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Latin and Brazilian jazz rhythms begin our recital but we soon make a stop at the Village Vanguard for the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. With reluctanc...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KHNS, WYAP, WEJP-LP 107.1, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 9
Radio 586 AZ Roots 10-30 to 11-05-19 Show 324
From: KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
Series: Radio 586 AZ Roots
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From a live remote, Desert Doug hosts “The Big Now” Guitar-Oriented Jazz No. 3 featuring players Howard Roberts, Johnny Smith, Hank Garland, Phil U...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
Full Moon Hacksaw #1699 (Hour 1 & 2) - 08/22/2019
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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A relaxed flowing show, the way we like it, still in summer re-runs with segments from ’16 & ’17 making a pretty good amalgam touching on all decad...

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


  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 8
Full Moon Hacksaw #1696 (Hour 1 & 2) - 08-01-2019
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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We start in Cal Tjader’s San Francisco Latin percussion world, the grooves crisp and succinct, with an occasional emulation his laid-back Shearing ...

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


  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 7
Full Moon Hacksaw #1695 (Hour 1 & 2) - 07-25-2019
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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To look at this program’s playlist overall, it contains “modern jazz,” tango within classical, melody and lyricism, R & B, and Latin. Quite a sum w...

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


  • Added: Jul 23, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 7
Praying To the Aliens
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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A UFO sermon from the Joshua Tree Astronomy Arts Theater, with Jeremy Corbell and RedBlueBlackSilver.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw #1687 (Hour 1 & 2) - 05/30/2019
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Despite the man’s name, his jazz life was reportedly opposite. So listen to Lucky Thompson’s tenor sax and decide for yourself. What would sound li...

Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WOUB, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 7
Full Moon Hacksaw #1683 (Hour 1 & 2) - 05-02-2019
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Celebrating the life, pianism and composing of Mulgrew Miller, we begin with one of his better-known originals, and keep things grooving with a new...

Bought by WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, WYAP, WVBI-LP, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 7
Radio-586-AZ-Roots-03-13-to-03-19-19-show-290
From: KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
Series: Radio 586 AZ Roots
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Hosted by Hacksaw Tom. Recordings by Arizona and national musicians, with an emphasis on jazz, lead up to a pair of selections from the First Tuesd...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
13th / BlacKkKlansman
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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13th, a 2016 documentary directed by Ava DuVernay, starts with some alarming facts. The U.S., with 5% of the world’s population, houses 25% of the ...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2019
  • Length: 04:49
The Set-Up
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Boxing films have been a popular genre since the very beginning of motion pictures, and those who like them usually have a favorite. Probably the m...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2019
  • Length: 03:58
Eighth Grade
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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There are teen movies, and then there are movies about teens. That’s a distinction that I just made up. My idea is that teen movies are what film c...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2019
  • Length: 04:17
Sorry to Bother You
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Sorry to Bother You is the kind of thing you might say when you’re a little afraid that someone might not appreciate what you’re about to ask. It’s...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2019
  • Length: 04:07
Full Moon Hacksaw #1661 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11-29-2018
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Minimal, fragmented and with a lot of open space we begin, a premiere bassist of our day Christian McBride. Next is not a tricky new jazz compositi...

Bought by WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, WVBI-LP, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WOUB and more


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 6