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The trombonist Jim Staley traces his path from playing in a Vietnam-era Army band and as an orchestral musician; through encounters with influentia...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 55:11
The cellist/composer/improviser in commentary with excerpts from several performances at Roulette.
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 28:00
Composer/trombonist Peter Zummo in remembrances of longtime collaborator composer/cellist Arthur Russell (1951-92) illustrated with excerpts from a...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 43:03
Composer/curator Matt Mehlan shares his history and vision for Roulette's annual Mixology Festival, music technology, and the future of the concert...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 28:00
Composer, trumpet and synth player, vocalist, and activist jaimie branch (1983–2022) in remembrances from bandmates bassist.
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 28:00
Wieselman traces the journey, illustrated with music by the Kamikaze Ground Crew and projects with Wayne Horvitz and Kato Hideki, all from the Roul...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 28:00
Rivers throughout America were critical for commerce from the 17th through the early 20th century. Think of the iconic steamboat. Bales of hay and ...
- Added: Jun 14, 2024
- Length: 59:00
The cross-genre and multidisciplinary Czech composer/performer (accordion, hichiriki, synthesizer, harmonica, voice, dance) walks us through three ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2024
- Length: 28:00
Excerpts from Roulette concerts by improvising activist guitarist Derek Bailey, with commentary by musician/professor/author David Grubbs (Records ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2024
- Length: 28:00
The composer Ches Smith in a collection of excerpts from performances at Roulette featuring Smith on drums, percussion, vibraphone, drum machine, a...
- Added: Jun 11, 2024
- Length: 28:00
Vocalist, composer, and electronic musician Charmaine Lee with commentary on and excerpts from four performances at the Roulette concert hall in Br...
- Added: Jun 11, 2024
- Length: 28:00
Imagine what traveling would be like if everyone followed different rules of the road. Total chaos. Well, that’s just about the story of the record...
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- Added: Jun 07, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Ed Smalls, an African American, had the longest running nightclub north of New York City. 1917 to the 1960s. The club Ed opened reached its zenith ...
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- Added: May 31, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Almost as quickly as they arrived, they disappeared from lack of use. Slang from the 1920s and early ‘30s. During their heyday, they were flying ar...
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- Added: May 23, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
No one truly knows when the term came into common use. The original intent was for it to be derogatory. Insult the band and the music by calling it...
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- Added: May 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s not that one brought about the other. Rather, it was a melding of many factors, and during that time, jazz became incredibly popular, as did s...
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- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Besides having the moniker of “The Roaring Twenties”, not everyone was partying. Creative minds were at a peak coming up with new inventions. Who n...
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- Added: May 03, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The nightlife that blossomed in Chicago and New York in the teens and ‘20s are the thread that laced together audience and music. In earlier years,...
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- Added: Apr 25, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
A retrospective of the entire year in sixty minutes, "A Shortcut through 1994" feature no narration, it's message evolves from the careful juxtapos...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 01:00:28
Let's eat! A virtual audio buffet featuring food songs and visits to classic diners and restaurants with vintage movie, television clips and Spam o...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 31:42
“It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire,” Those words come from F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
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- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
It was a lengthy journey from obscurity to international popularity. No one will say it was easy. But, with steadfast perseverance and endless cre...
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- Added: Apr 11, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
As traditional jazz evolved through the 1920s, audiences in Europe began gravitating toward larger dance bands. Live performances at dance halls an...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Between 1917 and the early ’30s there is a transformative era for jazz in Europe. While the music gets a foothold in America, it quickly spreads ac...
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- Added: Mar 28, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Jazz had to deal with a number of hurdles, in the 1920s, before it was eventually accepted by the American public. Even then, it was very limited a...
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- Added: Mar 21, 2024
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
