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A fresh sound from TS Monk, rooted in tradition, describes openers for this episode while Lonnie Johnson sings and plays a 1948 hit. Then as if Duk...
Bought by WVBI-LP, KCMJ Community Radio, WYAP, WOUB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: May 17, 2016
- Length: 01:59:56
- Purchases: 6
It's blues time, featuring many artists I've seen live. Spending the 2000's going from one blues fest to the next, for a moment I wanted to be a mu...
Bought by WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB, WKAR, and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 01:59:59
- Purchases: 5
Real bebop bookends the swing and free eras for starters, without playing either. Monk is composer way before he was was known, Illinois Jacquet no...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, WKAR, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 01:59:59
- Purchases: 6
In this week's episode Jaap Van Zweden conducts Britten's Violin Concerto, featuring Simone Lamsma, on violin, as well as Shostakovich's Symphony N...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:58:28
The life and times of Frank Loessor from "Guys & Dolls" to "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"
- Added: Mar 28, 2016
- Length: 58:21
- Purchases: 2
Part 2 in the Origin Series explores some of the most legendary musicians ever to saw on the strings in the genres of bluegrass, jazz and the slipp...
Bought by Bandon Community Radio
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 01:55:39
- Purchases: 1
Tributes from one composer to another have been a favorite practice since the Renaissance. In this program Fiesta showcases delightful works dedica...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 58:30
Completing a 60-song, three-show cycle of recently released JazzGrass music that's worth listening to!
- Added: Jan 13, 2016
- Length: 01:52:14
Sending out the old & ushering in the new with a year-end themed set of JazzGrass.
- Added: Jan 02, 2016
- Length: 01:58:34
Instrumentalists have been enjoying the company of other players since the early beginnings of music. Jazz guitarists in particular love to hear ot...
- Added: Jun 25, 2015
- Length: 59:19
Experience global music without a filter in this mix. A mix made of many styles; from rare South African funk to electro cumbia, New Egyptian pop, ...
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 01:01:18
Recently at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, Ayana Contreras caught a documentary about Death, a 1970s all-black proto-punk band out of Detroit. The do...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 08:18
- Purchases: 2
In a quiet park in Kampala, Uganda, 14 musicians from eight different East African countries sit under a tree.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 09:42
- Purchases: 1
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of from the 1950's to the 1970's. The golden age of Americana when race records and popul...
- Added: Jul 14, 2013
- Length: 02:56:22
Radio Curious visits with Reid Edelman, producer and director of The Music Man, a local theater production involving more than 100 people from the ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 29:02
This week scores to films about dream vacations, and vacation nightmares.
- Added: May 08, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
This episode looks at music as communication. In Africa drums were always used to send messages across the jungle. These same drums are now used to...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 06, 2010
- Length: 18:08
- Purchases: 1
Soul and funk revival from Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and minimalist pop from Sigur Ros frontman Jonsi.
Bought by KVNF, WTIP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio
- Added: Apr 12, 2010
- Length: 57:08
- Purchases: 4
Media Outlets say they are being more transparent about the way news is gathered and reported. Sure, if you think transparency means showing you th...
- Added: Feb 10, 2010
- Length: 54:30
lifelong cyclist/broadcast journalist, Paul Fischer, on the pleasures and pitfalls of city biking. I'll take you road-biking in Central Park, where...
Bought by KMUN and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Jan 15, 2010
- Length: 54:31
- Purchases: 2
It seemed like an impossible task, but that didn't stop us from trying. With the first decade of the new millennium coming to a close, we decided t...
- Added: Nov 18, 2009
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
Students of the shakuhachi flute learn about music, listening, and presence in their daily lives.
- Added: Dec 04, 2008
- Length: 06:37
Iranian composer Behzad Ranjbaran calls on the folk music and folk legends of his country to write music for the traditional orchestral setting. C...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :25
- Added: Jun 06, 2008
- Length: 06:18
- Added: May 30, 2007
- Length: 05:04
