PRX - Pieces for Topic: Women
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The 1960s is one of the most talked-about, argued-about, mythologized periods of American history. This edition of Night Lights highlights some wom...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 59:02
A profile of the pianist, singer, actress, and civil-rights activist, whose music drew on influences from classical to boogie-woogie, and who was t...
Bought by KVCR
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
A survey of the singer's 1960s recordings with Cannonball Adderley, George Shearing, Gerald Wilson, and others.
- Added: Sep 21, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Jim Capobianco and Robert Rippberger talk the warmth of imperfection, grocery lists in odd places, and not killing the animators.
- Added: Sep 15, 2023
- Length: 18:24
Michelle Danner talks making choices, taking risks, and the importance of speaking up.
- Added: Aug 16, 2023
- Length: 17:02
Anita Monga talks dark humanity, the first female animator, and when Sessue Hayakawa was arguably the sexiest actor in Hollywood.
- Added: Jul 09, 2023
- Length: 20:37
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
A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
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
Trumpeter Billie Rogers, vibraphonist Marjorie Hyams, and other unsung heroines of the World War II era in jazz.
- Added: Mar 11, 2022
- Length: 59:04
At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star.
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Bought by KMUW, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, High Plains Public Radio, WKMS and more
- Added: Mar 13, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
Tribute to Aretha Franklin
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.
- Added: Aug 16, 2019
- Length: 57:01
- Purchases: 1
We’ll hear some McPartland recordings with a special emphasis on her own compositions, as well as excerpts from a 1975 interview in which she talks...
Bought by KLCC and High Plains Public Radio
- Added: Feb 21, 2019
- Length: 59:04
- Purchases: 2
Night Lights' decade-by-decade story of women in jazz continues with Maria Schneider, Abbey Lincoln, Shirley Horn, Cassandra Wilson and more.
- Added: Feb 04, 2019
- Length: 59:00
Dr. Shelley Stamp talks digging, allegory, and the relative nature of shocking subject matter.
- Added: Oct 13, 2018
- Length: 16:25
- Purchases: 2
Jazz interpretations of Mitchell's music, plus the songwriter's own jazz-influenced recordings from the 1970s.
- Added: Mar 25, 2018
- Length: 59:03
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...
- Added: Feb 16, 2018
- Length: 59:01
Terry Baum talks fulfilling her destiny, presenting the evidence, and the advantages of a one-woman show.
- Added: Jan 02, 2015
- Length: 21:47
Signe Baumane and Sturgis Warner talk dreams, unexpected cultural differences, and making friends with depression.
- Added: Nov 27, 2014
- Length: 29:16
