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More previously unreleased 2018 material from the late Harold Mabern is being released, and we bring in Charles Neville from the famous New Orleans...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, KHNS, WYAP, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 8
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Always with it, on our way to tune in the radio or log on to FullMoonHacksaw.com. This is a piano-heavy show with many recent releases, for example...

Bought by WMOT, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, KHNS, WOUB and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 9
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Monk, Muddy, Milt, Moody & Mulligan music is made this episode. First Thelonious Monk features trumpeter Clark Terry uncredited, a recording by the...

Bought by KMXT, WMOT, KJZX-Austin, KHNS, KRZA and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
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Nappy stands for Napoleon, but we call him Snappy Brown. Then we hear the blues piano side of lady singers, Paula Harris comes from San Francisco, ...

Bought by WMOT, KJZX-Austin, KHNS, KRZA, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 9
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Ray Barretto and Johnny Pacheco provide Latin starters, we’ve got a tribute to British Ronnie Scott and this day it’s also bassoon with the Austral...

Bought by WMOT, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, KHNS, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 9
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Carrying on a tradition in the family, leading from the drums, is Willie Jones III for openers. Then two-piano-four-hands-one-guy Bill Evans with h...

Bought by WMOT, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, KHNS, WYAP and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 9
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We talk about the NBA champs Milwaukee Bucks, what's going on in the Tokyo Olympics, and the NCAA as Texas and Oklahoma wants to move to the SEC.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 58:04
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Trumpeter Eddie Henderson drives his red Ferrari to gigs, Gal Costa sings a Brazilian standard. From Michigan State University (where its campus st...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, WMOT, KHNS, KRZA, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Courtesy, Credit: Julia Meek
Out of our profound respect for you, this edition is courtesy of Folktales.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), and WFIU


  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 3
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It is refreshing to hear Dave Mullen lead off an ensemble playing multiple horns, a couple at once. Funky in its own way is 1960s George Shearing. ...

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


  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 8
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin is stranded in a quirky town with a bunch of misfits and a werewolf in the horror comedy video game adaptatio...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Jun 25, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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If you're like Trace, the thought of math makes you want to run and hide; that anxiety, that tightness in your chest, the weird shooting pains (wai...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Out of the gate we devote a quarter of the show to new 2021 releases, like Roxana Amed, and the John DePaola Quartet with leader on trumpet. Planet...

Bought by KRZA, KHNS, KJZX-Austin, WYAP, WOUB and more


  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 9
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We have been sick, and we need the medicine of the show. Campfire stories, tent revivals, Shakespeare in the Park, knife fights at the honky-tonk, ...

  • Added: May 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Brian Haughton's 'Haunted Spaces, Sacred Places, Credit: mysteriouspeople.com
Brian Haughton is an archeologist, researcher, and author on the subjects of supernatural folklore and ancient sacred places. When I contacted Bria...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2021
  • Length: 57:21
Caption: Philadelphia Haunts by Katharine Sarro, Credit: Schiffer
Kat Sarro visits The Paranormal Cafe to discuss her book, 'Philadelphia Haunts: Eastern State Penitentiary, Fort Mifflin, and other Ghostly Sites'....

  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 57:01
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Sax man Art Pepper did a session with the late pianist Stanley Cowell…Latin light might describe the track, so we follow with the George Shearing Q...

Bought by KHNS, KRZA, KJZX-Austin, WMOT, WYAP and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 9
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Arachnophobes BEWARE! Imagine a spider that uses special silk to lift something that's 50 times bigger than itself. There is a video! You must wat...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 04:59
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What is that weird smell? It's called trimethylamine (TMA) and for most of us it stinks like rotten fish. For a small percentage of people it smell...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 05:04
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What if we burned calories the same way cars use gas for fuel? Amy fell down the comparison hole trying to figure out the "car calories" for humans...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 04:54
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Today on Art Beat we talk to Mary Farrell on her film Winona: Unmasked that was shown at this years Frozen River Film Festival. We talked about her...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:41
Caption: Folktale of Beacons, Credit: Julia Meek
We're shining a light on a world of musical storytelling this week.

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), and WFIU


  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 4
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This week it's all about football! We tackle where we think Deshaun Watson is going to land since it's known he wants to leave Houston. Also, we'll...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2021
  • Length: 59:25
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An interview with Sandra Niemi, author of "Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pain of the Real Vampira, Maila Nurmi." Niemi is Nurmi's niece and she ...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:08
Caption: Photo by David Shankbone CC BY 3.0
The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet, Laura Kasischke discusses her journey to writing fiction. Now the author of nine novels, she ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00