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Whenever bandleader Ed Kirkeby wanted his band to record for another label, he’d tag them with another name. Hence: The Golden Gate Orchestra. An...
- Added: May 18, 2012
- Length: 58:56
The Cutting Edge looks at the causes and aftermath of the 1992 L.A. rebellion.
- Added: Apr 29, 2012
- Length: 01:00:13
Aila Ivonen talks with Scott Hall about the history of Kaleva Hall, a temperance hall in Virginia built in 1906.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Apr 27, 2012
- Length: 08:56
- Purchases: 2
When Kansas City born Frankie Teschmacher joined the Austin High Gang in the mid-1920s, his instrument of choice was alto saxophone. But, in his yo...
- Added: Apr 26, 2012
- Length: 58:57
In the 40s, jazzmen came of age on the stages of dance halls. Pianist Barry Harris and drummer Billy Higgins capture the view from those stages.
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, KFOK-LPFM and more
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 10:44
- Purchases: 6
In 1922 composer Harry Warren created his first hit, "Rose of the Rio Grande," with lyrics by Edgar Leslie. From that successful launch came a prod...
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
There are three audible stages in the career of Louis Armstrong: The years prior to recording when he performed with Fate Marable, Oscar Celestin a...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 59:01
“Their music affects your consciousness, it changes your DNA if you really, really let it settle into your soul; Odetta’s voice, Miriam’s energy an...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 23, 2012
- Length: 12:33
- Purchases: 3
He has one foot in vaudeville and one foot in jazz, and he was a show unto himself. Ted Lewis was the only popular bandleader who could show up wit...
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 59:01
This segment on the early years of jazz is devoted to the small group session between 1924 and 1930. Oh, yes, we also drift over to 1945.
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 58:58
In 1921, the Coconut Grove nightclub was the place to see and be seen. Hollywood stars frequently the club located in a peaceful rural setting sur...
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 58:57
Two legendary figures in early jazz: Johnny Dodds and Tiny Parham. They were at the center of the evolving new music of the 1920s, and contributed ...
- Added: Mar 03, 2012
- Length: 59:00
Blues, jazz and folk music of the 1920s and '30s featuring the guitar, piano, violin and more.
- Added: Feb 14, 2012
- Length: 59:00
The Civil Rights Movement was the United States’ first major domestic news story to be televised. The author of a new book exploring television’s r...
Bought by WMTNradio, Troy Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 3
Labor leader Art Carter was an important but now largely forgotten hero of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 04:56
In-depth documentary on the Story of Black America - from slavery to the civil rights movement. It’s fast-paced with a great original musical score...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jan 14, 2012
- Length: 17:23
- Purchases: 1
Just who were the Pilgrims and what did they want?
- Added: Oct 24, 2011
- Length: 46:15
- Purchases: 2
The final segment describes the fall of Bataan and those who were able to escape to Corregidor Island. Interviews are with: Art Campbell, Ralph Lev...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Oct 15, 2011
- Length: 06:38
- Purchases: 1
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This segment goes into detail about how the food situation became so bad in the Philippines that the troops had to b...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Oct 15, 2011
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 1
Surrounded by three generations of her family, 92-year-old Ruth Ellis reflects upon 70 years of marriage to her 94-year-old husband, Paul, learning...
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 09:24
A one-hour documentary special in honor of the Peace Corps' 50th anniversary, Peace Corps Voices uses historic recordings and contemporary intervie...
Bought by KALW, Wisconsin Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WRPI, KUNM and more
- Added: Aug 11, 2011
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 12
A timely generational discussion on Infidelity
- Added: May 21, 2011
- Length: 14:30
Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Karol Wojtyla's path to papacy is laid out in this episode of Kaleidoscope.
- Added: May 02, 2011
- Length: 46:52
Part one of a two-hour remembrance for Memorial Day... Since the ending of the Civil War in 1865, America has lost over 700,000 soldiers. For Memor...
Bought by KTXK
- Added: Apr 26, 2011
- Length: 44:32
- Purchases: 1
