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What is Swing?
From: WDCB
Series: MusicHeads with Patricia Barber
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Patricia Barber is joined by Larry Kohut on Bass, Jon Deitemyer on Drums, and Jim Gaillereto on Tenor Sax for an hour of music and conversation abo...

Bought by WJSU and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 58:43
  • Purchases: 2
600th Special (Hour 1)
From: D. Grant Smith
Series: The Appetizer Radio Show
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This hour we celebrate 600 episodes of great music with requests and stories from folks across the country, all involving music that impacts us in ...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
Psychology of Jazz (Ep. 11)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Jazz pianist Kenny Werner: the accidental guru of the musical self-help movement
Are jazz musicians more prone to mental illness? Can jazz be therapeutic? And what can musicians do to get over performance anxiety? We'll answer t...

Bought by WCPN, KMUN, KHNS, Radio New Zealand, WCPN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 26
Artie Shaw (Ep. 16)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: The swing era's reluctant hero: Artie Shaw
In the 1930s, clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw reigned as one of the great kings of the swing era. But just 20 years later, he mysteriously le...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, KMUW, WNMU-FM, WCPN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 33
Thelonious Monk (Ep. 24)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Jazz legend Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk was one of the most original voices to emerge from the world of mid-century jazz. But it took decades for the world to realize it.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCQS, KMUW and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 32
Jazz on Broadway and Television
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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"Jazz on Broadway and Television" is a one hour program containing Jazz interpretations of on Broadway and off Broadway show tunes plus Television ...

Bought by KSRQ and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 54:47
  • Purchases: 2
Faster That A Speeding Bullet (Superheroes of the Turntable)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
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Zap! Pow! Blam! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? This one hour program is a fun listen to show with superhero inspired recordings and themes by Jazz,...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KREV-LP, and WJAB


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 3
A Funk Show Christmas
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics
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This year lets have a FUNKY FUNKY Christmas. You can deck the halls, have a sleight ride with The Jackson 5, James brown, Bootsy Collins and others...

Bought by WJAB, WJAB, WUFT, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KHNS and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2014
  • Length: 57:07
  • Purchases: 8
I Hear Music Above My Head! Sister Rosetta Tharpe
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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Singer, guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a rare person to emerge in the music world. Her musical legacy includes early Rhythm and Blues and Gosp...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WTIP, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 10, 2014
  • Length: 57:50
  • Purchases: 3
Sun Ra: The Celestial Spirit of Music
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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"Sun Ra: The Celestial Spirit of Music" is a one hour program which is an introduction to the vast music of the legendary music ICON Sun Ra. His di...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 14, 2014
  • Length: 56:39
  • Purchases: 1
The Jazz Brunch: Brazilian Sunrise!
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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THE JAZZ BRUNCH - Brazilian Sunrise! is a limited one hour Jazz music series containing a variety of artists. One show contains three segments leav...

Bought by WTIP, WVAS, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 57:22
  • Purchases: 3
New Hot Club Group Performs this Friday Night in Minneapolis
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Luke Zuppan, Josh Parlanti and Allisa Jacobson of the Mississippi Hot Club, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
The Mississippi Hot Club: They're new recording and performing old gypsy jazz, and writing their own music too!

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 20, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Classical Winter Travels
From: D. Christine
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A winter's journey from the Arctic to the Antarctic, with familiar works by Mozart, Prokofiev and Debussy along with surprises by newer composers f...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WCQS, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 3
Back to MIAMI
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
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"BACK TO MIAMI" Is a return back to a place that brought you great hits like "I Get Lifted", "Rocking Chair", "Rock You Baby", "Keep It Comin' Love...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WJAB


  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 56:31
  • Purchases: 2
Cannonball Adderley
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Cannonball Adderley
Cannonball Adderley was embraced by the jazz community as soon as he hit the stage. His solos on Miles Davis' record Kind of Blue were remarkable a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 14, 2013
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
Back to New Orleans
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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Legendary musicians from New Orleans are featured in this program doing what they do best. This program contains the best of the New Orleans sound ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WSLR, WEZU, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 55:35
  • Purchases: 4
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
CWMJ #2: Rock Star
From: Michael Simon Johnson
Series: Conversations with Michael Johnson
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Michael Johnson opens up and shares the key to living a happy life. His band's legal troubles hint at larger issues of name and identity, but Micha...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:57
What's What: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning?
From: Paul McCarthy
Series: What's What Radio
Caption: Bertie Pearson, Credit: Rama Hughes
Bertie Pearson is an Episcopal priest in San Francisco. Before becoming a priest, he led two lives: one as a churchgoer, one as a rocker. So he w...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 46:31
Voicebox: Turntable Fable
From: VoiceBox
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Peter Varshavsky of Porto Franco Records and Avi Ehrlich of Springman Records present a candid view of the highs and lows of running a record label...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
VoiceBox: Hawaii Song-O: On the Art of Hula Singing
From: VoiceBox
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n Hawaiian Hula, singing and dancing going hand in hand. Join Patrick Makuakane, director of Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, a hula school and performance ...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
I've Got the Blues and I've Got Soul! The Incredible Jimmy Smith
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: The Incredible Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith was instrumental in shifting the Hammond organ into the spotlight in the jazz genre and his many Blue Note albums of the 50s and 60s, i...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, KSRQ, and KREV-LP


  • Added: May 27, 2012
  • Length: 50:05
  • Purchases: 5
Rufusized: Tony Maiden & kevin Murphy of Rufus Vol. II
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan, Credit: MCA
The story of RUFUS featuring CHAKA KHAN in their own words, by two of the founding members; keyboardist KEVIN MURPHY and guitarist TONY MAIDEN.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 54:21
Rufusized: Tony Maiden & kevin Murphy of Rufus Vol. III
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Rufus (Tony Maiden and Kevin Murphy), Credit: Rufus (Tony Maiden and Kevin Murphy)
The story of RUFUS featuring CHAKA KHAN in their own words, by two of the founding members; keyboardist KEVIN MURPHY and guitarist TONY MAIDEN.

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 58:26
  • Purchases: 1
Duke Ellington
From: KBEM
Series: Black History Minutes
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Diamond Be tells about some of the high points of Duke Ellington's career.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 1