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Great Performances of Songs from 1930 Broadway Shows
From: KCSM
Series: The Annals of Jazz
Caption: Richard Hadlock
The Great American Songbook was largely derived from Broadway Shows produced at the turn of the Century. However, as the Great Depression began in ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:12
Vast and Enduring Influence of Louis Armstrong
From: KCSM
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Louis Armstrong's vast and enduring influence on musicians especially trumpeters and singers is explored from Dorothy Fields to Harry James.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 56:42
A Sampling of Bay Area Talent
From: KCSM
Series: The Annals of Jazz
Caption: Richard Hadlock
The San Francisco Bay Area Jazz scene is a special place known for its diversity and camaraderie among its musicians. Host, Richard Hadlock samples...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:01:51
Folk "Axes"
From: KCSM
Series: The Annals of Jazz
Caption: Richard Hadlock
Musical Instruments referred to by musicians as "Axes" are investigated. Often home made or manufactured there are hundreds of instruments. Host, R...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:02:36
A Gang of Teenagers
From: KCSM
Series: The Annals of Jazz
Caption: Richard Hadlock
Host, Richard Hadlock explores the players of yesteryear who showed immense talent as teenagers. Musicians, Jabbo Smith, Mary Lou Williams and Gene...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:43
Jazz People Reshape Familiar Melodies
From: KCSM
Series: The Annals of Jazz
Caption: Richard Hadlock
Exploring the art of reshaping and reforming familiar song melodies...A common practice done by jazz instrumentalists.

  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 58:00
Escapade: I
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Series: Circumference
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Tattoo artist Ron White goes through several generations to tell us how he got to where he is today. It's not what you're expecting. Part one of th...

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 12:21
SITPE # 1511
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Starting Anew.

Bought by KWMR, KSRQ, KKRN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 12
Albert Maysles - on how childhood experiences shape our art
From: Susan Doran
Caption: Al Maysles and me at The Maysles Institute, Harlem NY
Brief excerpt of a 4.5 hour conversation had with Albert Maysles before our interview for the radio documentary I'm producing, "The Night Before Al...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 05:44
Bonjour Chanson Series 16, Episode 80
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 16
Caption: By Courtesy of Lucrèce Sassella
Very new, new and older Francophone songs introduced in English. No need to speak French to Enjoy the show.

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 1
Claudette Colvin - A Teenage "Rosa Parks"
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
Caption: Claudette Colvin.
What makes a hero? Why do we remember some stories and not others? Consider Claudette Colvin. She was a 15-year-old girl in the segregated city of...

Bought by KUNM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, PRX Remix, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:19
  • Purchases: 5
John Coltrane (Ep. 10)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Sax titan John Coltrane
In this hour, it's the life and legend of John Coltrane—from his rural North Carolina roots to his place as one of jazz's most spiritual men and mu...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, KZYX, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 34
Billie Holiday (Ep. 8)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Jazz songbird Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday has one of jazz's most bittersweet voices, and the biography to match.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KMUW, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 33
Les Paul (Ep. 6)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Les Paul, Credit: William Gottlieb
Here's a little fact about Les Paul that you might not know: rock icon Steve Miller is Les Paul's godson. In this hour, Steve talks about his memor...

Bought by WCPN, KAZU Seaside, Calif., Radio New Zealand, KHNS, KMUN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 26
Jazz's Great Comeback Stories (Ep. 3)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Guitarist Pat Martino survived a brain aneurysm to become one of the most soulful voices of jazz guitar.
It's one of jazz's all-time great comeback stories: In the 1950s, the great Duke Ellington was seen as a "has been." Then, out of nowhere, an epic ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCPN, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KHNS, WCPN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 25
Jazz and Film (Ep. 25)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman in the 1961 movie, "Paris Blues"
In this hour of The New Jazz Archive, we explore the shared history of jazz and film—from the role race played in shaping jazz's place at the movie...

Bought by WCPN, KHNS, KMUN, WVPE, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29
Chet Baker (Ep. 22)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Cool jazz icon Chet Baker
Chet Baker's James Dean-like good looks and emotional trumpet playing represented everything that was cool about "cool jazz." But his life was the ...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WFAE, KPIP-LP, WCPN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Blues Unlimited #274 - A Conversation With The Blues (Language Advisory)
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
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Join us for a special program featuring two legendary albums. The first, a "Conversation With The Blues," was recorded by Paul Oliver during the su...

Bought by Radio New Zealand and WJSU


  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Greenhouse Project: Bringing San Francisco’s forgotten flower farm back to life
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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In 2002, Juan Carlos Cancino, was riding his bike around town and found an entire city block of dilapidated greenhouses, near a hill in the Portola...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 08:44
The Spiritual Edge: Bay Area Jews head to the desert to reclaim their Biblical roots
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - The Spiritual Edge
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Berkeley-based Wilderness Torah is one group that’s trying to bring new meaning to the old tradition. Intrigued, I tagged along this past spring fo...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 11:58
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1455 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/18/2014
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Cookin' with grease: Add some Coltrane for the winter, and THANKS to musicians who donated their time and talents to a recent radio fundraiser. The...

Bought by WOUB and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 2
Babies on Demand: Reproduction in a Technological Age
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: In vitro fertilization (IVF) in progress. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 40:27
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1453 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/04/2014
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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"Across the board & from the ground up." A couple extended outings thru saxophone harmony and guitar swing, Afro-Cuban jazz and the singers gettin...

Bought by WOUB, WVBI-LP, WJSU, and WYAP


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:59:53
  • Purchases: 4
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1451 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11/20/2014
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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November 13, 1974 was first day on the air. A few months later was jazz radio show # 1. It has taken 40 years to get to this edition #. These ho...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WOUB, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:59:55
  • Purchases: 3
Norman Corwin, Writer-Director From Radio's Golden Age
From: Katy Sewall
Caption: Norman Corwin with Katy Sewall, Credit: Katy Sewall
Norman Corwin is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest writer–director–producer's of radio's Golden Age. Radio educator, Tony Palermo, says that ...

Bought by WABE, WAMU, KSUT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 49:32
  • Purchases: 4

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