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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 KSLU
- Added: Sep 02, 2022
- Length: 59:48
- Purchases: 1
In the mid-1970s, at the peak of her commercial success, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell took her music in a jazz-influenced direction, working wit...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- 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....
- Added: Aug 27, 2022
- Length: 59:46
- Purchases: 2
Jazz for the Labor Day holiday, with special guest jazz historian Ted Gioia (author of the book WORK SONGS). Featured artists include Duke Ellingt...
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WRGY, KBBI Alaska and more
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 40
In 1943, Duke Ellington debuted a landmark 43-minute musical portrayal of the African-American experience at Carnegie Hall. We'll hear music from i...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KMUW, WVIA, Radio Catskill and more
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 20
In January 1943, bandleader and composer Duke Ellington took his orchestra into Carnegie Hall for the first time and chose to make his debut with a...
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:03
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: Aug 20, 2022
- Length: 59:19
- Purchases: 1
A centennial salute to talk-show host and jazz advocate Steve Allen, who also played piano and wrote numerous songs such as “This Could Be the Star...
- Added: Aug 19, 2022
- 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 KSLU
- Added: Aug 13, 2022
- Length: 01:00:09
- Purchases: 1
In the 1950s the young French Algerian pianist Martial Solal emerged on the European jazz scene, playing with Sidney Bechet, Lucky Thompson, and Dj...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- 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 KSLU
- Added: Aug 06, 2022
- Length: 59:55
- Purchases: 1
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: Jul 30, 2022
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 1
A profile of the unsung saxophonist Percy France, whose playing displayed what jazz writer Sascha Feinstein called “an irresistible combination of ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Throughout jazz history the harp has rarely been heard as a soloing or primary instrument, but in the 1950s and 60s Dorothy Ashby, a musician out o...
- Added: Jul 27, 2022
- 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 KSLU
- Added: Jul 23, 2022
- Length: 59:22
- Purchases: 1
In 1970 trumpeter Miles Davis released Bitches Brew, a landmark album that melded jazz, rock, and other elements into a sound that came to be known...
- Added: Jul 21, 2022
- 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 KSLU
- Added: Jul 16, 2022
- Length: 01:00:01
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 10, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 10
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: Jul 08, 2022
- Length: 59:34
- Purchases: 1
Jaco Pastorius transformed the sound of the bass in jazz during his relatively brief career as both a leader and a member of Weather Report. Bassis...
- Added: Jul 06, 2022
- Length: 59:03
A tour of the city’s 20th-century jazz legacy.
- Added: Jul 05, 2022
- Length: 59:03
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: Jul 02, 2022
- Length: 58:44
- Purchases: 1
This week on Harmonia, we’ll explore secular song and quirky instrumental music of the fifteenth-century Flemish composer Alexander Agricola. Plus,...
- Added: Jun 30, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Chiaroscuro is a technique in visual art that tells vivid stories through sharp contrasts of light and dark. This week on Harmonia, we’ll uncover m...
- Added: Jun 30, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Stylus fantasticus - the very words bring wild, swirling, colorful images leaping into the imagination! This week on Harmonia, we’ll explore this e...
- Added: Jun 30, 2022
- Length: 59:02
