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Although an admirer of Jimmy Smith, Shirley Scott found her own sound on the Hammond B-3 and became its most renowned female practitioner, recordin...
- Added: Mar 08, 2024
- Length: 59:00
First broadcast in 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program showcasing the best live recordings from acclaimed music acts and enter...
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
The 1960s is one of the most talked-about, argued-about, mythologized periods of American history. This edition of Night Lights highlights some wom...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 59:02
In 1433, around 3:00 PM in Scotland in high summer, the sun vanished. This total solar eclipse came to be known as “The Black Hour.” Join us this ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Eclipses are awe-inspiring even today, but imagine witnessing an eclipse in the days before dollar-store glasses. You might not know why the sun wa...
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 59:01
A profile of the pianist, singer, actress, and civil-rights activist, whose music drew on influences from classical to boogie-woogie, and who was t...
Bought by KVCR
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
A centennial celebration of the pianist, singer, actress, and civil-rights activist, whose music drew on influences from classical to boogie-woogie...
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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
Recalling a time when farm-to-table dining wasn't a movement, it was just how things were.
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 58:59
An optional second hour with more of our celebration of some of the most irresistible music of the late 1960's and early '70's from Sly and the Fam...
Bought by KFSK, WUTC, KSJE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KUHF and more
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
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 celebration of some of the most irresistible music of the late 1960's and early '70's from group leader Sly Stone and the FAMILY STONE band - tha...
- Added: Feb 13, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 10
From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 59:03
