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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
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
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
Cissy Houston Talks About Her Career, Elvis Pressley, and Her Daughter Whitney Houston
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: A. Curtis Farrow In Conversation With Another Great Performer
Caption: The Great Cissy Houston
Gospel Artist Great, Cissy Houston talks about her career, her children which included her daughter, the late great recording Artist Whitney Housto...

  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:36
Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music & Beauty, Part II
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're picking up the thread of a long conversation with Gunther Schuller. He’s the man who first mapped a Third Stream of “jazzical” music between ...

Bought by WMNR, KMUW, KPIP-LP, and WABE


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 33:10
  • Purchases: 4
A Conversation with Conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas discusses his dual career as conductor and educator. [30:49]

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 30:49
  • Purchases: 2
Allen Toussaint
From: South Carolina Public Radio
Series: Song Travels with Michael Feinstein News Friendly Version
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Pianist, singer, composer, and producer Allen Toussaint defines the sound of New Orleans. He penned early R&B hits including “Mother-in-law,” “Work...

Bought by Prairie Public, KMXT, KUOW, KISU, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 6
SITPE # 1345
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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A Very Underground Show

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, WOUB, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KMXT and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
Howard Smith interivews Eric Clapton 10/24/1970
From: Ezra Bookstein
Series: The Smith Tapes
Caption: Collection 1 - Fillmore East, Credit: Masaki Koike
Howard Smith's interview with Eric Clapton, Oct. 24, 1970. Clapton's new band, Derek & the Dominos, will play the Fillmore East immediately followi...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
35: The Grand Guitar
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Caption: Photo by: Emile Klein
A guitar-shaped building in Bristol, TN gives a glimpse into the roots of country and bluegrass in the region.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2013
  • Length: 20:18
JazzStories: Abbey Lincoln
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"The artists are the ones who make it possible for people to remember what the time was like, and who was there, and what we did as human beings. ...

Bought by WMOT, WHQR, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 11:41
  • Purchases: 4
SITPE # 1331
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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OWNED! (or what's the deal with all these long tracks from 1969, anyway?)

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KPVL, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
NEA Jazz Moments with Eddie Palmieri [second installment]
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Three more short "Moments" featuring 2013 NEA Jazz Master, EDDIE PALMIERI. In this batch, we learn about Eddie's exposure to mambo at a young age; ...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, Harford Community Radio, KCSM and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 14
SITPE # 1327
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Progressions, regressions, Gypsy, Airplane, Donovan, '67, UK, and suddenly...It's Coltrane time!

Bought by KWMR, KPVL, KSRQ, WOUB, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
JazzStories: Mulgrew Miller
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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“I think of a lot of things when I’m playing the piano and one of the last things I think about is the piano…you try to somehow think and feel li...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 11:02
  • Purchases: 3
JazzStories: Reid Anderson
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"Smells Like Teen Spirit," in particular sounds like a modal jazz tune. That's one of the funniest things to me. It says so much about people's att...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 16:32
  • Purchases: 3
Willie Nelson 80th Birthday Celebration with Joe Nick Patoski
From: Marfa Public Radio
Caption: Willie Nelson being interviewed by host Joe Nick Patoski, Austin Texas, Credit: Joe Nick Patoski, KRTS.
Marfa Public Radio's Joe Nick Patoski, Willie Nelson biographer and host of the Texas Music Hour of Power, looks back on the life and career of the...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 56:36
Clifford Brown
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Clifford Brown
Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown is known for his precise and captivatingly smooth technique yet his life was tragically cut short in a car accident w...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 2
Billie Holiday
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday once said, "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." As we look back on her life a...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUPR low power FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 4