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A centennial tribute to singer Sarah Vaughan focuses on her early recordings with Billy Eckstine’s big band and as a rising solo star with Charlie ...
- Added: Mar 24, 2024
- Length: 59:02
A deep look inside the process of music discovery.
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:01
Our age-old response to this life on earth: yours, theirs, all of ours.
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
A deeper look inside the art of using fewer words to say more.
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
How photographic images help us preserve and circulate something as wispy as memory.
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
A look at the nature of performance, and its effect on performer and audience alike.
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:02
Songs of and reflections on the house and home.
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Celebrating one of the greatest opportunities for human connection.
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:01
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
https://indianapublicmedia.org/porchlight/note-to-self.php
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 59:00
The hours around dawn, reflected upon in story and song.
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 59:00
One of the greats of early rock 'n' roll, remembered in story and song.
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 59:02
Remembering some greats who departed before their time.
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 59:02
Reflections on the summer of 1965 in story and song.
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 59:00
In 1952, bassist Charles Mingus and drummer Max Roach formed their own record company in an attempt to assert creative and entrepreneural control o...
- Added: Feb 15, 2024
- Length: 58:48
A deep dive into the remarkable career of RAY CHARLES, one of the formative forces in 20th century music whose impact is still clearly felt today. ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
Pannonica de Koenigswarter, aka Nica or “The Jazz Baroness,” was a friend to Thelonious Monk and other jazz artists and inspired a slew of musical ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 59:01
After leaving John Coltrane’s group at the end of 1965, pianist McCoy Tyner made an ambitious run of albums for the Blue Note label in the late 196...
- Added: Dec 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Night Lights takes another long leap back to the year in jazz, featuring music from John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy’s controversial quintet, George R...
- Added: Oct 29, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Music for television shows has often been created or recorded by jazz musicians, including Oliver Nelson, Neal Hefti, Shelly Manne, Vince Guaraldi,...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 59:02
In this optional second hour, book editor Holly Gleason and 3 other contributors to the 2023 book release called PRINE ON PRINE: INTERVIEWS AND ENC...
Bought by WAMU, WRVO Public Media, KFSK, KSJE, KUHF and more
- Added: Sep 25, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
A look at another notable year in the career of jazz giant John Coltrane, including his collaboration with vocalist Johnny Hartman, and newly-disco...
- Added: Sep 16, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Jim Capobianco and Robert Rippberger talk the warmth of imperfection, grocery lists in odd places, and not killing the animators.
- Added: Sep 15, 2023
- Length: 18:24
A program of music from the very first Monterey Jazz Festival. Featured artists include Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Gerry Mullligan, Dave Bru...
- Added: Sep 09, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Michelle Danner talks making choices, taking risks, and the importance of speaking up.
- Added: Aug 16, 2023
- Length: 17:02
