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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 05, 2023
- Length: 59:36
- Purchases: 2
Trumpeter Lee Morgan and saxophonist Hank Mobley were two leading exemplars of the 1950s and '60s hardbop sound and recorded together on a number ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Carl Friedrich Abel performed on and wrote for the viola da gamba in a time when its popularity was declining. This week on Harmonia, we’ll explore...
- Added: Jul 28, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Live recordings made at the nightclub in Hermosa Beach, California, featuring Joe Henderson, Elvin Jones, and others.
- Added: Jul 27, 2023
- Length: 59:00
In 1971, Columbia Records signed four of modern jazz's greatest artists. Within two years all four were gone. What happened?
- Added: Jul 23, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Rockin' Revisit
Bought by WPVM 103.7, WMTNradio, Royalton Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA and more
- Added: Jul 16, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
Anita Monga talks dark humanity, the first female animator, and when Sessue Hayakawa was arguably the sexiest actor in Hollywood.
- Added: Jul 09, 2023
- Length: 20:37
In the years following World War II, Black American jazz musicians such as Dexter Gordon, Kenny Clarke, and Bud Powell took up residence in France,...
- Added: Jul 06, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi joins us to discuss a vital and often-overlooked period of the trumpeter’s career.
- Added: Jun 29, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Night Lights celebrates America’s Independence Day with music from James Reese Europe, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and other c...
- Added: Jun 25, 2023
- Length: 59:02
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: Jun 17, 2023
- Length: 01:01:54
- Purchases: 2
Ellington kept his orchestra together in a changing economic landscape, continuing to create memorable music and expanding his compositional horizons.
- Added: Jun 08, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Nat King Cole’s short-lived 1956-57 variety show was canceled for lack of advertisers, but it made an invaluable cultural contribution and blazed a...
- Added: Jun 01, 2023
- Length: 58:58
In this second optional hour of a music special from producer Paul Ingles, listeners will hear more tracks from over 50 years of recording and perf...
Bought by Prairie Public, RadioStPete Florida, KSJE, WRVO Public Media, KUT and more
- Added: May 26, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 15
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 KSLU
- Added: May 26, 2023
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 1
In the last decade of his life Art Blakey continued to mentor new talent in his Jazz Messengers group, helping to elevate musicians such as Wynton ...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Recordings that pianist Bill Evans made as a sideman and as a leader in the year following his bassist Scott La Faro’s death in an automobile accid...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 59:03
Music of the Terre Haute, Indiana, big-band leader whose 1940s orchestra helped pave the way for cool jazz.
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 59:03
Carla Bley is renowned today for her big-band writing, but it was small-group recordings of her work in the 1960s that introduced her to the jazz w...
- Added: May 07, 2023
- Length: 59:01
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: May 05, 2023
- Length: 01:01:40
- Purchases: 2
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: Apr 29, 2023
- Length: 59:51
- Purchases: 2
An overview of the pianist and composer's career--one of the longest-running and most creative in the history of American jazz. We'll hear music fr...
- Added: Apr 27, 2023
- Length: 59:00
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: Apr 22, 2023
- Length: 59:57
- Purchases: 2
In light of Ahmad Jamal's passing on April 16, 2023, we're highlighting the pianist’s frequently-overlooked late 1960s/early 70s stretch on the Imp...
- Added: Apr 20, 2023
- Length: 59:00
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: Apr 15, 2023
- Length: 01:00:04
- Purchases: 2
