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Music selected by healthcare workers and front line responders in honor of their colleagues
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 02:03:01
Although the isn’t as well known today, Red Allen was favorably compared with Louis Armstrong in the 1920s and ‘30s. He managed to perform with som...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
By the mid 1920s, Harlem had completed its renaissance in art and literature. Now it was time for the music to complete the circle. At its height, ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 30, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
An additional hour of tributes from just a few of those lost in 2020
Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting
- Added: Dec 27, 2020
- Length: 58:50
- Purchases: 1
Secular Christmas music had been around for decades before jazz began to incorporate the season into their music. When they finally did in the mid ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 23, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
A final look at an impossible year, 12 months of incredible drama, played out over the world stage in an hour long retrospective
Bought by KMUN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Mississippi Public Broadcasting, KKRN and more
- Added: Dec 23, 2020
- Length: 59:09
- Purchases: 13
In the transition from traditional jazz in the late 1920s and the emergence of the Swing Era of the 1930s … the big bands managed to hold on to the...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Jack Hilton was one of the biggest names in music across Europe in the 1920s and ‘30s. Inspired by symphonic jazz popularized by Paul Whiteman in A...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 11, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
An interview with John Barbour, former host of "Real People" and author of "Your Mother's Not a Virgin!: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian D...
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 35:47
An interview with Robin Bragg-Marcelli and Rick Marcelli, authors of "Hide Your Love Away: An Intimate Story of Brian Epstein as told by Larry Stan...
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 30:33
An interview with television horror movie hostess and reigning Vampira impersonator Evelle LeChat
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 23:30
An interview with Danforth Prince, author of "The Seductive Sapphic Exploits of Mercedes de Acosta: Hollywood's Greatest Lover"
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 24:30
An interview with Amy Bruni, star of "Kindred Spirits" and author of "Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts"
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 23:56
An interview with William Elliott Hazelgrove, author of "Sally Rand: American Sex Symbol."
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 25:20
An interview with Harold Holzer, author of "The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media--from the Foundi...
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 24:26
An interview with Peter David, author of "Mr. Sulu Grabbed My Ass, and Other Highlights from a Life in Comics, Novels, Television, Films and Video ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 27:50
An interview with Kenneth Womack, author of "John Lennon 1980: The Last Days in the Life"
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 26:11
An interview with David J. Skal, author of "Fright Favorites: 31 Movies to Haunt Your Halloween and Beyond" (Turner Classic Movies)
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 26:53
An interview with Maureen Whittaker, author of "Jeremy Brett: Playing a Part."
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 28:49
An interview with Eilidh McGinness, author of "JOSEPHINE: Singer, Dancer, Soldier, SPY"
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 20:21
An interview with Art Bell, author of "Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of Humor"
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 21:41
An interview with Gareth Owen, author of "Raising an Eyebrow: My Life with Sir Roger Moore
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 25:32
This program is a cross section of Southern jazz artists who brought their music to the big stage in the 1920s. Alberta Hunter, Sippi Wallace, the ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 04, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
This program is devoted to the music of corniest Bix Beiderbeck in 1927, when he and saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer teamed up. This is the year the ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 26, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Jazz fiddlers weren’t considered a core component of early jazz, yet they were a key to popularizing a new music. Eddie South, Stuff Smith, Stephan...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 19, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
