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Josh Alexander talks synchronicity, ecstatic truth, and allowing the Rev. Al Sharpton to write his own story.
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 18:26
Colin Cutler is an Americana and roots, guitar and banjo driven singer-songwriter based in Greensboro, NC. We discuss the juxtaposition between h...
- Added: Nov 23, 2022
- Length: 58:22
The early emergence and on-going stellar career of musician STEVIE WONDER is explored and discussed in this special (offered this month of June - A...
Bought by WJCT, KUNM, KGOU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Jun 06, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 14
The early emergence and on-going stellar career of musician STEVIE WONDER is explored and discussed in this three hour special (offered this month ...
Bought by KMUW, KUNM, KGOU, WGBH Radio Boston, WXXI Rochester and more
- Added: Jun 03, 2022
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 14
San Francisco Silent Film Festival Artistic Director Anita Monga talks exorcising the evil of BIRTH OF A NATION with DJ Spooky, why Buster Keaton i...
- Added: May 01, 2022
- Length: 23:35
Diggin' Diz: A Portrait Of Dizzy Gillespie
- Added: Feb 03, 2022
- Length: 59:04
A music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 1940’s, into ...
Bought by KFSK, KUHF, WRVO Public Media, and KSJE
- Added: Jan 30, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
This program features composers and musicians of African Descent in various fields of Classical Music.
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: Jul 22, 2021
- Length: 53:21
- Purchases: 1
In the last years of his life, and no longer with the services of longtime writing partner Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington continued to compose mem...
- Added: Apr 22, 2021
- Length: 59:02
In the 1960s Herbie Hancock seemed to be everywhere on the jazz scene, recording both as a leader for Blue Note and as a sideman with Miles Davis a...
- Added: Apr 02, 2020
- Length: 58:59
Music of the pianist and composer-arranger who left his stamp on the bebop and hardbop era, as well as an interview with Dameron biographer Paul Co...
- Added: Sep 23, 2019
- Length: 59:00
Tom Cairns provides an excellent full hour selection of Good Time Blues.
- Added: Feb 25, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
RaMell Ross talks sacred moments, turning reality into a dreamscape, and why there’s no such thing as a documentary.
- Added: Feb 18, 2019
- Length: 19:30
One of the world's most successful music producers got his start as a jazz trumpeter, arranger, and bandleader. We'll hear recordings he made in th...
- Added: Mar 11, 2018
- Length: 59:01
Vocalist Deelee Dube combines influences from South Africa, Britain and the US to sing a sultry tune or a funky blues.
- Added: Jul 27, 2017
- Length: 07:08
Saxophonist Joshua Redman explains how each type of sax creates a different musical mood.
- Added: Jul 27, 2017
- Length: 07:43
Anita Monga talks restoring fragments, revolutionary women, and honoring the legendary film preservationist, David Shepherd.
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 20:20
A look at one of hardbop's greatest front lines: Trumpeter Lee Morgan and saxophonist Wayne Shorter were two of the leading lights of the 1960s har...
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 58:59
A salute to hardbop pianist Freddie Redd, featuring recordings he made with artists such as Jackie McLean and Tina Brooks.
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 59:05
Jazz scholar and Lester Young box-set annotator Loren Schoenberg joins us as we look at the music the saxophonist made in the years following a dif...
- Added: Apr 20, 2017
- Length: 59:00
This one hour musical program commemorates the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Some of the music is rare and this would a splendid program t...
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KUCB, WORT, Spokane Public Radio, WSLR and more
- Added: Dec 29, 2016
- Length: 01:02:29
- Purchases: 27
Raoul Peck talks defining moments, constructing mythologies, and finding the right title.
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Dec 10, 2016
- Length: 23:00
- Purchases: 1
Julie Dash talks cultural authenticity, validation, and the unexpected gifts of Hurricane Hugo.
- Added: Dec 04, 2016
- Length: 14:38
Anita Monga talks color, tattoos, and Rene Clair.
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 22:47
Princess Shaw talks imagination, fighting through the storm, and the best day(s) of her life.
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 16:02
