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Carla Bley is renowned today for her big-band writing, but it was small-group recordings of her work in the 1960s that introduced her to the jazz w...

  • Added: May 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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Varios estrenos y una entrevista exclusiva con Sol Pereyra

  • Added: May 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:55
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Multiple Grammy nominated jazz singer Sara Gazarek joins host John Floridis for conversation about her beginnings in music during her youth in Seat...

Bought by WMUU-LP and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:32
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Regina Carter, Credit: Bob Travis; (CC-BY-2.0)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: First of a two-part podcast with violinist and NEA Jazz Master Regina Carter

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish continues the Women’s History Month celebration with more stellar music and comedy featuring a global assemblage of Jewish women.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: 12th-century trobairitz Azalais de Porcairagues
Troubadours have been romanticized and re-imagined in popular culture for centuries now, but rarely does that evocative re-imagination include the ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
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An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring female jazz performers and composers of the 1960s.

Bought by WNMU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KMUN, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 39
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring women instrumentalists who thrived in the upside-down jazz world of wartime America.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WJCT, WGBH Radio Boston, High Plains Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15
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A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.

Bought by KLCC and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
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As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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Singer songwriter collaborators Nick Spear and Susan O'Dea, together known as Big Sky City Lights join host John Floridis to discuss the origins of...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Karl Klockars talks with musician and author Margo Price.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNED Buffalo, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: The legendary Sweet Honey in the Rock on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Grammy winning folk and civil rights legends, an all-woman, African-Am...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, Radio Bristol, GCR (Global Community Radio), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KHNS and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 49
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As we continue to learn about women composers of the past, twelfth-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen remains one of the most studied, ...

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week I took a trip to Fainting Goat Studios in rural Bedford Virginia to meet with a couple of indiepndednt artists from Appalachia. Karlee R...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:54
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Acclaimed pianist Margery McDuffie Whatley and her brother internationally renowned violinist Robert McDuffie return to Musician's Spotlight for a ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Los Angeles based singer songwriter Mary Scholz makes her debut appearance on Musician's Spotlight with host John Floridis. Mary discusses her upb...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:16
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Amanda Bocchi, Credit: Jaimie Phillips
This week my guests are the lovely Indie from Indie Killed the pop star, an Atlanta artist who started out as an opera singer and transitioned to e...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
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Throughout jazz history the harp has rarely been heard as a soloing or primary instrument, but in the 1950s and 60s Dorothy Ashby, a musician out o...

Bought by WJCT, KRCU Public Radio, WVTF, KLCC, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician Bonnie Raitt takes listeners on a track-by-track tour of her 2022 album release JUST LIKE THAT, offering a fasc...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KMUW, KUNM, WORT, WMOT and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician Bonnie Raitt takes listeners on a track-by-track tour of her 2022 album release JUST LIKE THAT, offering a fasc...

Bought by WDDE, KNCT FM, WPVM 103.7, WVIA, KUHF and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Reported by Celine Teo-Blockey. Originally produced 11/18/2021 Australian indie rocker Courtney Barnett’s latest album Things Take Time, Take Time...

  • Added: May 28, 2022
  • Length: 53:44
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Celebrating Oklahoma Women of Song, highlighting 3 important Oklahoma singer/songwriters, who are no longer with us, Gus Hardin, Debbie Campbell, a...

  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
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A fresh two hour set of all-women musicians who play bluegrass, jazz and/or that visionary continuum of sounds in between

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:40