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NL 23-44: Heard It on the TV: Jazz Takes on Television Themes, 10/23/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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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
HARM 23-45: Pub Crawl, 10/30/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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This week on Harmonia, come along on a musical pub crawl. We’ll hear from hard-partying musicians of the past and enjoy tunes about beer, tavern li...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
NL 23-43: Jazz Women Of The 1980s, 10/16/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the 1980s a new generation of women jazz musicians emerged who expanded their predecessors' push against the patriarchal boundaries of the jazz ...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Slimy, Slithering, and Squiggling Things
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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A snake slithers at your feet. A slimy frog leaps from a lily pad onto your head, and a fantastical serpent squiggles past — so begins a creepy wee...

Bought by KTXK and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Songs of Thanks and Praise
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Join us as we sample music of Thanksgiving in early America. From Spanish settlers in Florida to Moravians in North Carolina to the father of Ameri...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and WVIA


  • Added: Oct 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
NL 23-42: Indiana Avenue: Black Boulevard of Jazz, 10/9/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Indianapolis' Indiana Avenue neighborhood produced several of the most influential jazz artists to appear on the post-World War II jazz scene, incl...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
A Pennsylvania man saw the true power of Atomic Annie
From: WITF
Caption: Tom Lambert
70 years ago, Tom Lambert witnessed the only time a nuclear device was fired from a cannon

  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 13:07
Music Archive Showcase #157 - TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Holly Gleason, editor, of PRINE ON PRINE (John Prine) [Optional Hour 2]
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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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
PE 2339
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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APSGBLR (hey, you wanted short, right?)

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KHNS, WFHB, WFiT Melbourne 89.5 FM and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 22
NL 23-40: Jazz Her Way: Nancy Wilson in the 1960s, 9/25/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A survey of the singer's 1960s recordings with Cannonball Adderley, George Shearing, Gerald Wilson, and others.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
NL 22-41: Jazz Side Story: Leonard Bernstein, 10/2/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Bernstein’s music performed by Billie Holiday, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, Dave Brubeck, Louis Armstrong and others, as well as som...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
NL 23-39: Trane ’63, 9/18/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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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
THE INVENTOR -- Jim Capobianco and Robert Rippberger Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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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
Falling Into Autumn
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children’s Hour we are falling into autumn in the northern hemisphere. We learn the science about equinox, and hear from 5th grade...

Bought by KTNA, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, KRSC, Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
NL 23-38: Jazz From Monterey: 1958, Birth of a Festival, 9/11/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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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
20230911: Falling Into Autumn, 9/11/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children’s Hour we are falling into autumn in the northern hemisphere. We learn the science about equinox, and hear from 5th grade...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
NL 23-37: After Brubeck: Paul Desmond In The 1970s, 9/4/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A program featuring the 1970s music of alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, including commentary from Desmond friend and biographer Doug Ramsey.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Florence Price
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: Conversations in African American Music
Caption: Florence Price, Credit: Public Domain
Dr. Louise Toppin examines the life and music of trailblazing composer Florence Price.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
NL 23-36: Gennett Days: Hot Jazz From the Heartland, 8/28/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Exploring the emergence of a kinetic jazz scene in 1920s Indiana, with commentary from historian James Madison and others.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Lux Kitty Foyle
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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The series featured as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance....

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KSLU


  • Added: Aug 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:33
  • Purchases: 2
NL 23-35: Postwar Prez: Lester Young 1945-1950, 8/21/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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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: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
NL 23-34: When Russell Met Baker, 8/14/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz theorist George Russell and the young trombonist David Baker formed a progressive-bop group at the beginning of the 1960s so modern that it wa...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
THE TRAILER TO: The Lasting Impact of ROBBIE ROBERTSON
From: Paul Ingles
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[please do not broadcast this unless you are also committing to broadcasting at least one hour of the full program at PRX ] TRAILER TO : THE LASTI...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 12:23
The Lasting Impact of Robbie Robertson (Optional Hour 2)
From: Paul Ingles
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Robbie Robertson, chief writer for the legendary and hugely influential rock group simply called The Band, has passed away at the age of 80. Music ...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, WXXI Rochester, KSJE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
The Lasting Impact of Robbie Robertson
From: Paul Ingles
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Robbie Robertson, chief writer for the legendary and hugely influential rock group simply called The Band, has passed away at the age of 80. Music ...

Bought by Prairie Public, Morehead State Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KRCB 104.9, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 29

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