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Black Americans have been major stars of the musical theater since 1906. Who was the first black Broadway star? What was the first all-black musica...
- Added: Feb 05, 2023
- Length: 01:58:00
Recordings that saxophonist John Coltrane made with Duke Ellington, Eric Dolphy, and the rhythm section of McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jo...
- Added: Sep 13, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Longtime WCPN Cleveland/ideastream jazz programmer Dan Polletta has created the 58:30 segmented show “Miles & Wayne: Christmas Eve Classics.” The p...
- Added: Nov 08, 2021
- Length: 58:25
- Purchases: 2
Despite his amazing legacy, Billy Preston is nearly forgotten in the mainstream and is not in the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame. Author Steve Bergsman d...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Raven Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, Public Radio East and more
- Added: Feb 09, 2018
- Length: 57:59
- Purchases: 10
Bob Corritore is an internationally renowned Chicago blues harmonica master and critically acclaimed producer.
Bought by WEAA, Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), Spokane Public Radio, WEAA and more
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 54:13
- Purchases: 7
The music that accompanied the historic civil rights march, in March 1965.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 01:52:19
- Added: Jan 15, 2009
- Length: 22:53
- Purchases: 1
Master drummer Max Roach recounts his own extraordinary journey, from the era of the Jim Crow south to the creation of modern jazz, from the civil ...
Bought by WFIU, High Plains Public Radio, WSLR, KCSM, KMUW and more
- Added: Dec 17, 2007
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 47
Billy Taylor and Frank Wess talk about great musicians who never left town
- Added: Aug 19, 2007
- Length: 07:36
Explanation of the tradition of choral singing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Bought by WTIP, WEFT, KXOT Public Radio, and WBHM
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 08:52
- Purchases: 4
Clarence Fountain of the Blind Boys of Alabama talks about gospel singing
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 09:13
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 07:44
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 08:14
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 08:20
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 1
How the blues grew and changed
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 05:58
- Purchases: 2
Overview of how the Blues became the most important music to develop in Ameica in the 20th century
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 06:23
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 1
Profile of William Grant Still, the dean of black classical composers, with excerpts of an interview with his daughter Judy.
- Added: Feb 22, 2006
- Length: 19:57
Blues lyrics give us unique insight into the African American experience.
Bought by KMUN, WLIW, KMUN, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Feb 03, 2005
- Length: 29:10
- Purchases: 22
