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What will the Inflation Reduction Act do about Environmental Justice?
From: Possibly
Series: The Inflation Reduction Act and Climate Change
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When the Inflation Reduction Act passed last summer, there was a lot of talk about the money that was going toward environmental justice communitie...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
How will states use money from the Inflation Reduction Act to address climate change?
From: Possibly
Series: The Inflation Reduction Act and Climate Change
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For the past few weeks, we’ve been talking about the Inflation Reduction Act, a law that puts hundreds of billions of dollars in federal money towa...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 2
How will the Inflation Reduction Act affect me?
From: Possibly
Series: The Inflation Reduction Act and Climate Change
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Last year, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act. Despite the name, it actually includes a lot of plans to address climate change. Last week,...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 2
How does a law to reduce inflation affect climate change?
From: Possibly
Series: The Inflation Reduction Act and Climate Change
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How is the Inflation Reduction Act going to help us reduce our greenhouse gas emissions? It turns out, it puts aside BILLIONs of dollars for combat...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 2
Blue Note Records (Ep. 13)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Blue Note saxman Sonny Rollins, Credit: Francis Wolff
In this hour, it's the myth and magic of the label that defined mid-century jazz: Blue Note Records.

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 28
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (Ep. 12)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Rahssan Roland Kirk
His unrivaled ability for playing many instruments at once made him one of the most unique jazz musicians of all time. But Rahsaan Roland Kirk's ba...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 30
John Coltrane (Ep. 10)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Sax titan John Coltrane
In this hour, it's the life and legend of John Coltrane—from his rural North Carolina roots to his place as one of jazz's most spiritual men and mu...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 34
Jazz and the Visual Arts (Ep. 9)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: "Out Chorus" by jazz painter Romare Bearden, 1979-1980.
You can't listen to a painting or see a song. But that doesn't mean there aren't really interesting places where the worlds of jazz and art overlap...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 27
Billie Holiday (Ep. 8)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Jazz songbird Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday has one of jazz's most bittersweet voices, and the biography to match.

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 33
Kansas City Jazz (Ep. 7)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Mary Lou Williams, Credit: William Gottlieb
In this hour, we go in search of the storied and sordid roots of the famed Kansas City sound.

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29
Les Paul (Ep. 6)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Les Paul, Credit: William Gottlieb
Here's a little fact about Les Paul that you might not know: rock icon Steve Miller is Les Paul's godson. In this hour, Steve talks about his memor...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 26
Louis Armstrong (Ep. 4)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Satchmo in 1960.
In this hour, it's a look at the life and music of Louis Armstrong with the good people of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, located in Louis' form...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
Jazz's Great Comeback Stories (Ep. 3)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Guitarist Pat Martino survived a brain aneurysm to become one of the most soulful voices of jazz guitar.
It's one of jazz's all-time great comeback stories: In the 1950s, the great Duke Ellington was seen as a "has been." Then, out of nowhere, an epic ...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 25
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...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 38
Jazz and Spirituality (Ep. 1)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band's Roger Lewis at a jazz funeral in 2010. , Credit: Kim Welsh
In this hour, we go in search of jazz's spiritual side—from the sacred roots of sax titan John Coltrane to the unique New Orleans spiritual traditi...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
Artie Shaw (Ep. 16)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: The swing era's reluctant hero: Artie Shaw
In the 1930s, clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw reigned as one of the great kings of the swing era. But just 20 years later, he mysteriously le...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 33
Jazz and Film (Ep. 25)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman in the 1961 movie, "Paris Blues"
In this hour of The New Jazz Archive, we explore the shared history of jazz and film—from the role race played in shaping jazz's place at the movie...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29
Charlie Parker (Ep. 19)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Charlie Parker, the king of bebop
In this hour, it's the legendary story of how a Kansas City kid who didn’t like to practice became the king of bebop.

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 30
The Art of Jazz Drumming (Ep. 21)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: The "greatest drummer i n the world," Buddy Rich
Jazz drummers have got to be some of the most unheralded of jazz's many unsung heroes. This week we dissect their art and craft with world-renowned...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Thelonious Monk (Ep. 24)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Jazz legend Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk was one of the most original voices to emerge from the world of mid-century jazz. But it took decades for the world to realize it.

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 32
Alan Lomax (Ep. 18)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: American folklorist Alan Lomax
In this hour, it's the life and legacy of American folklorist Alan Lomax and how his calling to record the world changed the course of twentieth ce...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, KHNS, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29
Chicago Jazz
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Avant garde jazz icon Sun Ra helped light the fuse for Chicago's rich experimental music scene.
Long before New York became America's jazz capital, Chicago jazz reigned supreme. This hour, we continue our tour of America's great jazz cities wi...

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 32
Imagination Station
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
River Show

  • Added: Nov 13, 2008
  • Length: 28:00
Imagination Station
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Honey Bees

  • Added: Nov 06, 2008
  • Length: 28:00