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Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series, Credit: Paul Vogelzang
🎙️✨ Attention Beatles enthusiasts! Discover Kenneth Womack's insights on Mal Evans, the unsung hero behind The Beatles. 📚 From a Beatles scholar's ...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2023
  • Length: 32:51
Tina Turner the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
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Queen of Rock 'n' Roll is a musical history of the great Tina Turner hosted by musicologist Howard Burchette.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and KOSU


  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 57:17
  • Purchases: 2
The Supreme Diana Ross
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
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"The Supreme Diana Ross" is a presentation hosted by Howard Burchette on the history of Diana Ross with the Supremes. They were the greatest female...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
The Future is Still Female
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: Living American Composers: New Music from Bowling Green
Caption: Sarah Cahill, Credit: Christine Alicino
Pianist Sarah Cahill joins us as we revisit her performance project "The Future is Female." Also, music for the violin by Augusta Read Thomas, feat...

Bought by KMUN, WRTI, Classic107.3, and KMXT


  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Ebony Classics - Classical Music In Color
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Classics
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"Ebony Classics - Classical Music In Color" features the music of people of color in the Classical music industry.

Bought by WILL


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:50
  • Purchases: 1
Aretha Franklin Lady Soul!
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Music Lecture
Caption: Aretha Now, Credit: Atlantic Catalog Group
"Lady Soul! - The Music of Aretha Franklin" is a musical view of Aretha Franklin's career with Atlantic Records.

Bought by WJCT and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 27, 2021
  • Length: 56:46
  • Purchases: 2
Ebony Classics - A Beautiful Flower
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Classics
Caption: Leontyne Price
This is a Classical music program featuring women of color. They are all notable Women in various fields of Classical Music; including Composers, ...

Bought by KVCR, WXXI Rochester, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 56:24
  • Purchases: 3
Cinderblock Bookshelves: Chapter 1
From: Rain Perry
Series: Rain Perry's Cinderblock Bookshelves
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“P.S. to Johnny: I am happy about the baby except the name. Couldn’t we find something a little less far out?” Rain’s mother dies young, and in a ...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Talkin' About Jazz: Elaine Burt
From: KBEM
Series: Talkin' About Jazz with Joan Griffith
Caption: Elaine Burt
Guitarist/educator Joan Griffith duets and visits with trumpeter Elaine Burt.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 57:04
Talkin' About Jazz: Clea Galhano
From: KBEM
Series: Talkin' About Jazz with Joan Griffith
Caption: Clea Galhano
Guitarist/educator Joan Griffith duets and visits with recorder player Clea Galhano.

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 56:04
Talkin' About Jazz: Ann Reed
From: KBEM
Series: Talkin' About Jazz with Joan Griffith
Caption: Ann Reed, Credit: Terry Gydesen
Joan Griffith plays and visits with singer-songwriter Ann Reed.

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 57:26
The Ultimate Dunk
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Women in the Austin Music Scene
Caption: Kana Harris (right) interviewed in the Texas Folklife archive room
Punk Musician & Creator of Community Record Store, Kana Harris merges all. This story was produced by Mary Hollyman, Tony Plata, and Cynthia Luna w...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
Nancy Wilson - This Mother's Daughter
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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Nancy Wilson - This Mother's Daughter is a special music program highlighting the greatest recordings of the great lady of Jazz and song - Nancy Wi...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KGLP, and WMOT


  • Added: Dec 30, 2018
  • Length: 57:10
  • Purchases: 3
Listening to Ladies: Pamela Z
From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies
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Composer Pamela Z lets us know what a phonolog was, how great the Museum of Jurassic Technology is (about which she co-wrote an opera), and how to ...

  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
Listening to Ladies: Ingrid Stölzel
From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies
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Composer Ingrid Stölzel talks about annoying church bells, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and the importance of mentorship.

  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 23:54
Two Stars: Big Maybelle / Andy and the Bey Sisters
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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Two Stars, two acts, one Blues and the other Jazz. Both at the opposite ends of a thin line. This show highlights Blues stouter Big Maybelle and th...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: May 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:32
  • Purchases: 1
Mother's Day (A Love Celebration)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics
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Nice Jazz, R&B and Pop music to make Mothers day a wonderful day for your listening audience.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, and WTIP


  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:26
  • Purchases: 3
The Double Bass
From: WDCB
Series: MusicHeads with Patricia Barber
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Patricia Barber is joined by Jazz Double Bassist Patrick Mulcahy and Classical Bassist Andy Anderson to explore the floor of music, the Double Bass...

Bought by KMUW and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Piano as Percussion
From: WDCB
Series: MusicHeads with Patricia Barber
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Patricia Barber is joined by world renowned pianists Amy Briggs and Lisa Kaplan to explore the changes Modernism within the 20th Century brought to...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 1
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
Nina Simone (Ep. 2)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Nina Simone, the "High Priestess of Soul"
In this hour, it's the life and music of Nina Simone—from her roots as a gospel and classical musician to her place as one of jazz's fiercest voice...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, WCPN, KMUN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 38
Nursing The Blues! Alberta Hunter
From: Howard Burchette
Series: D Natural BLUES
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Nursing The Blues! The Story of Alberta Hunter is an introduction and a presentation of the musical life of Jazz and Blues singer ALBERTA HUNTER. S...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 56:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Jazz Mother of the Piano: Mary Lou Williams
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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She was called "The First Lady of the Piano", "The First Lady of the Jazz Piano" and "The First Lady of Jazz". She was Mary Lou Williams and was a ...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WVAS, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 57:03
  • Purchases: 3
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
The Gentle Women of Jazz
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: Valaida Snow
This one hour program highlights some of the greatest and obscure female jazz musicians of all time. These great ladies are masters of the harp, vi...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WTIP, Spokane Public Radio, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 56:08
  • Purchases: 4