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Standing With Ukraine
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Standing With Ukraine!, Credit: Shepard Fairey
As Russian President Vladimir Putin conducts an unjustified invasion and starts his own war, We Stand with Ukraine- mixing reactions from around th...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:49
Portraits In Black: Jazz Tributes To African-American Heroes
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
Caption: Jackie Robinson
Music tributes to African-American figures such as Paul Robeson and Joe Louis from Count Basie, Clifford Jordan, Charles Mingus, and others.

Bought by WLRH, KRCU Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WJSU, WESM 91.3 FM and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
AG 22-08: Billie Holiday and The Big Bands, 2/14/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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We usually think of Billie Holiday as a small-group singer, but she also worked with several big bands. This week on Afterglow, we’ll hear Holiday’...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
A Shortcut 2021 Tribute Mix
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Betty White
An extra hour of celebration of those who've left us this year, with music and events that broke too late to be included in A Shortcut Through 2021

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Dec 31, 2021
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
AG 22-02: The Artistry Of Stephen Sondheim, 1/3/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week, we remember the artistry of American songwriter Stephen Sondheim, and his many contributions to the American songbook, like “Small World...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Legend of La Telesita
From: Classic107.3
Series: Tango with Cally
Caption: La Telesita
Tangos, folkloric chacarera music, and the famous Argentine myth about the girl who danced herself to death.

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Sep 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
TALK MUSIC WITH ME: The Music and Philanthropy of Harry Chapin- Single Hour Version
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me
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Single hour version of a program spotlighting a 2020 documentary called HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING. Music host Paul Ingles talks abo...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Songs for the Struggle-Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement (episode 2)
From: Daniel Polletta
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Longtime WCPN Cleveland/ideastream jazz programmer Dan Polletta has created "Songs for the Struggle- Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement." This is ...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, KBEM, Wyoming Public Radio, WCPN, WDCB and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:25
  • Purchases: 6
SPRINGSTEEN: Writers' Favorites (Compilation Version)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Bruce Springsteen
"...articulate, thoughtful, moving" Producer Paul Ingles gathers 7 top music writers to talk about their favorite Bruce Springsteen tracks from th...

Bought by North State Public Radio, WKMS, KGLT, KRPS, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
When Beethoven Ruined Beethoven
From: Dale McGowan
Series: How Music Does That - Shortcuts
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In addition to being a great composer, Beethoven was a world-class pianist. But his last performance did not go at all well, as Dale McGowan explains.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 05:48
Sony Soundtracks — Keeping Score podcast features 1917’s Jos Slovick in ‘I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger’
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: Sony Soundtracks — Keeping Score
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Jos Slovick is the featured guest on Sony Soundtracks Keeping Score podcast, produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Jos gives us a ...

  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 09:25
Tall Tales & Stories
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: We're Better Than This...
Heading into unknown territory with Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Robert Forster, Pam Grier, Christopher Walken, Sam Elliot, Timothy Olyphant, Keith Car...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:52
We Are Still Here - "Mir Zaynen Do!"
From: William Zukof
Series: The Western Wind Judaica Series
Caption: We Are Still Here!
The Holocaust Through Music & Memory; Sung by The Western Wind & Narrated by Danny Burstein and Jessica Hecht

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KWIT


  • Added: Oct 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
Sound the Shofar! An Ancient Instrument in Modern Times
From: The WFMT Radio Network
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The shofar, an instrument made from a ram’s horn, is heard in synagogues all over the world during the Jewish High Holidays. It has also been heard...

Bought by WRTI, WWFM, WRGY, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
Episode 27 - Summer of '69 - We are Stardust
From: David Grimes
Series: Into Each Life
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Woodstock - the Summer of 1969

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 03:53
Episode 26 - Summer of '69 - Who Are You?
From: David Grimes
Series: Into Each Life
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Charles Manson and the Tate Labianca murders in the summer of 1969

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 04:30
Episode 25 - Summer of '69 - I Know White People
From: David Grimes
Series: Into Each Life
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Muhammed Ali is convicted of refusing induction into the Armed Services

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 05:33
Episode 23 - Summer Of '69 - Chappaquiddick
From: David Grimes
Series: Into Each Life
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Ted Kennedy - The Summer of 1969

  • Added: Jul 08, 2019
  • Length: 09:41
All Mixed Up-American Dream
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Approaching America , Credit: 1905
From Antonín Dvorak's “New World Symphony” through Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land”, James Baldwin’s visions of a “Native Son” into the lat...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2019
  • Length: 59:25
#18-34 Schubert Farewell 1
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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This week on Played in Oregon the Schubert Ensemble plays the piano Quintet by Antonin Dvorak.

Bought by WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
PIO 18-16 The Sealed Angel
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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Oregon Repertory Singers perform Rodion Shchedrin's The Sealed Angel

Bought by WCNY, WNIJ, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
Fats Domino
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Fats Domino
The Founding Father of Rock and Roll

Bought by KCSM and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1599 (Hour 1 & 2) - 09/21/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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The impeccable British jazz critic/writer/musician Leonard Feather assembles a studio of all-stars to open this program, followed by funky guitar b...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 8
The Last: Final Recordings of Jazz Greats
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hourlong program of classic jazz, highlighting end-period performances from Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, and others.

Bought by WVIA, KPIP-LP, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WPTC, and South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1564 (Hour 1 & 2) - 01/19/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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The Charlie Hunter Trio says come as you are, as it smells like teen spirit! Hunter was influenced by Roland Kirk, of whom we hear playing multiple...

Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: Jan 17, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 5