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Musician's Spotlight -Howard Levy - Moira Smiley Remixed Mspot Part Two- 711
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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A two part encore broadcast featuring musicians who consistently push themselves and the boundaries of the music they perform and compose. Piano an...

Bought by WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 3
Toni Morrison-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Toni Morrison
A tribute to the legendary Toni Morrison, in her own words with music and memories from those whose lives she touched

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 55:39
  • Purchases: 1
Musician's Spotlight -Moira Smiley- 701
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Singer and composer extraordinaire Moira Smiley returns to Musician’s Spotlight on the heels of her most recent album “Unzip The Horizon” as well a...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
NEA Jazz Moments with Pianist, Joanne Brackeen (round two)
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Joanne Brackeen is the only female to join Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and talks working with Stan Getz.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 8
Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promos - Amina Figarova - 680
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promos
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Born in Azerbaijan and now based in New York, pianist and composer Amina Figarova brings her exotic and exquisitely written explorations in jazz to...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2019
  • Length: :45
One for Marian: Marian McPartland
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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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
The Big Pond #14: St. Hildegard of Bingen
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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St. Hildegard of Bingen was a twelfth-century German nun – a writer, composer of chants, mystic and visionary. You might be asking yourself, what o...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 06, 2019
  • Length: 12:55
  • Purchases: 1
NL 19-13: Jazz Women Of The 1990s, 3/25/2019
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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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
Musician's Spotlight - Hermina Jean - 689
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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The founder of the popular Missoula based alt folk band Butter, Hermina Jean returns to Musician’s Spotlight to discuss her recent move to performi...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 5: You Go Girl! DJ Niena Drake
From: L. Michelle Smith
Series: The Culture Soup Podcast
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A full-circle moment is really the headline of DJ Niena Drake's life, and she bucks all the negative women stereotypes.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2018
  • Length: 34:05
Episode 1: The Queen of Soul's Favorite Soprano, Audrey DuBois Harris
From: L. Michelle Smith
Series: The Culture Soup Podcast
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Our premier episode features the story of The Queen of Soul’s Favorite Soprano, Audrey DuBois Harris.

  • Added: Nov 23, 2018
  • Length: 38:48
Americas3
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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What does it mean to be an American? Whether you’re from North America, South America or Central America, the group Americas3 will show you how we ...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 29:34
MARIA BY CALLAS -- Tom Volf Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Tom Volf talks connections, destiny, and being in service to Callas.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 32:27
Musician's Spotlight - Amy Ray - 685
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Singer songwriter Amy Ray has always been toward the “rockier” side of the folk-rock description that usually follows her work as one half of the G...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Musician's Spotlight - Allison Miller - 683
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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New York based drummer/composer/bandleader Allison Miller has been creating a buzz for her work over the last decade having been named “Rising Star...

Bought by KMXT, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
Rita Coolidge Interview - Her Legendary Career And The New CD "Safe In The Arms of Time" -
From: FM Odyssey
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From the historic tours she touched with music & stories from her time on the road with Delaney & Bonnie (Eric Clapton, George Harrison -1969), Joe...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 01:56:54
Spotlight on Female Composers
From: Wind & Rhythm
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This week on Wind & Rhythm we celebrate music by female wind band composers. We spotlight selections by Alex Shapiro, Shirley Mier, Valerie Coleman...

Bought by WNMU-FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMFA, and WUAL


  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 4
Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promo - Suzanne Santo - 675
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promos
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Suzanne Santo, the front-woman, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist for the popular Americana/Roots-rock duo HoneyHoney sets out on her own in suppo...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: :46
NL 18-13: Joni + Jazz: Joni Mitchell, 3/26/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz interpretations of Mitchell's music, plus the songwriter's own jazz-influenced recordings from the 1970s.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2018
  • Length: 59:03
NL 18-12: One For Marian McPartland, 3/19/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Night Lights celebrates the centennial of jazz pianist and radio host Marian McPartland, with a program emphasizing her own compositions as well as...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:04
NL 18-09: The Fantastic Jazz Harp Of Dorothy Ashby, 2/26/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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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...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
the Feeling Mode
From: Rachel Ishikawa
Caption: Rikki Bates playing drums., Credit: Kayana Szymczak.
Rikki Bates started drumming as a kid and hasn’t stopped since. She’s played drums for a variety of bands on Cape Cod for the past 30 years. In 201...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 2
Gaelyn Lea
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed we talk with violinist Gaelyn Lea. She is the 2016 winner of NPR's tiny desk contest and is a public speaker. She ...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 45:12
The Future of Music (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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An interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, KMUN, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Tomi Lunsford: Blue Dogs, Blue Notes, and Blue Grass
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Tomi Lunsford and Gwen Thompkins at Tomi's home in Nashville, Credit: Jason Rhein
Singer Tomi Lunsford has spent her life immersed in country music, but her playful vocal style draws from jazz and blues. In spite of her singular ...

Bought by KGLP


  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1