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This Week in Blues History #9 - May 27-June 2

From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History

This time, we profile Eddie Boyd, who recorded the only national chart hit for Chicago's J.O.B. label, this week in 1952.

Added: Mar 18, 2018
Length: 03:29

This Week in Blues History #4 - April 22-28

From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History

This time, we profile Sleepy John Estes, who ran into a little difficulty making his way to a recording session in New York City, this week in 1938.

Added: Mar 09, 2018
Length: 03:29

The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates jazz great Sonny Rollins

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Sonny Rollins, Credit: John Abbott

It's Sonny Rollins 87th birthday and he sat down with the NEA's Josephine Reed to talk about his life in music.

Bought by KWMR and KPIP-LP

Added: Aug 31, 2017
Length: 30:00
Purchases: 2

A conversation with 2017 NEA Jazz Master, Dr. Lonnie Smith

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Dr. Lonnie Smith, Credit: Mathieu Bitton

One of the best jazz organists, ever…and one of the most sampled jazz musicians.

Bought by Prairie Public, Harford Community Radio, Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, WTJU and more

Added: Feb 23, 2017
Length: 29:28
Purchases: 7

National Book Award winner James McBride looks at the Godfather of Soul, James Brown.

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

McBride’s latest book looks to understand what shaped James Brown-- one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.

Bought by WABE and WMUU-LP

Added: May 18, 2016
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 2

Wendy Oxenhorn: Fighting for Jazz Musicians

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Wendy Oxenhorn, Credit: Francisco Pini

2016 NEA Jazz Master and Executive Director of the Jazz Foundation of America, Wendy Oxenhorn: Keeping the music alive and the musicians playing.

Bought by KZUM, WABE, WNJR, and WMUU-LP

Added: Apr 07, 2016
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 4

Jazz Master Archie Shepp-- A Life in Music

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Archie Shepp: I Hear the Sound, Credit: Created by WOZNIAK

Archie Shepp shares his musical biography—and his thoughts about the legacy of African-American music.

Bought by KMUW, WMUU-LP, WNJR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Added: Mar 02, 2016
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 4

Cultural Critic Rashod Ollison on music and memories

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

In his memoir Soul Serenade, Rashod Ollison describes how music was a lifeline during a difficult upbringing.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR

Added: Feb 16, 2016
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 3

The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians: 50 years and still going strong

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

A half-century of musical innovation and self-determination, told by AACM co-founder (currently AACM-New York president) and 2010 NEA Jazz Master M...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WMUU-LP, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Added: Dec 23, 2015
Length: 28:28
Purchases: 3

Director and playwright Tazewell Thompson: Bringing it to the stage.

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Soloman Howard as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the company of Appomattox at Washington National Opera , Credit: Scott Suchman

Tazewell Thompson may be wowing critics and audiences with his direction of the opera Appomattox, but he’s an equally brilliant theater director an...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNJR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Added: Nov 24, 2015
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 3

Jazz great Charles Lloyd takes us on his journey

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

The world legend is thrown around a lot, but saxophonist, flutist and composer Charles Lloyd is the real deal. He's much of a musical innovator tod...

Bought by KPIP-LP, Harford Community Radio, WABE, and WNJR

Added: Apr 02, 2015
Length: 29:29
Purchases: 4

Black Theater, Black Lives

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Bernadine Mitchell in Bessie's Blues, wirtten and directed by Thomas W. Jones II, Credit: Courtesy of Metro Stage

Writer, director, and actor, Thomas W. Jones II makes sense of the world through theater

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR

Added: Feb 11, 2015
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 3

How My Basement Led Me To The Jazz Scene On Jackson Street

From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014

Caption: E. Russell 'Noodles' Smith, the owner of a famous club in the Central District in the 1900s., Credit: Credit Public domain, via BlackPast.org

RadioActive Reporter Nia Price-Nascimento lives in a house built in the 1920s in the Central District, Seattle's historically African-American neig...

Added: Jan 14, 2015
Length: 06:23

Tupac Shakur on Life and Death

From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank

"I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play" - Tupac Shakur in 1994. From an unheard interview recorded by Benjamin Svetkey, then a writer for...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVNF, KJZZ, PRX Remix, and KALW

Added: Dec 04, 2013
Length: 06:15
Purchases: 5

Part 1 - Hip-hop Artist One Be Lo talks Music, Youth, and Empowerment.

From: Noah Chandler
Series: Imagine 2050 Podcast

Part 1 of an interview with indie- hip-hop artist, One Be Lo.

Added: Feb 22, 2013
Length: 03:36

The Apex Club

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

The Apex Club was raided by federal agents and closed for selling alcohol during Prohibition in 1930. Just before that fateful day, New Orleans nat...

Bought by WDCB and KCBX

Added: Oct 25, 2012
Length: 58:58
Purchases: 2

Bay Area Beats: Jazz legend Bobby Hutcherson tells his story

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Bay Area Beats

For more than 40 years, Bobby Hutcherson has lived a life most artists can only dream about. After making his name in the 1960s in New York as one ...

Added: Mar 02, 2012
Length: 09:57

Lady E: Two Times A Child

From: Charles McGuigan

Lady E tells me that some nights when she’s finished singing and returns to her apartment and is having trouble with the zipper on her dress, she’l...

Added: Oct 15, 2011
Length: 56:36

The Dietitian on Feeding Bob Marley Before He Died of Cancer

From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank

Caption: Bob Marley on Tour in Dublin July 6, 1980, Credit: Eddie Mallin via Flickr

Rona Steinberg recalls the time a cancer-stricken Bob Marley came into her hospital and her life.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Sep 22, 2011
Length: 05:05
Purchases: 1

Remixing Grandma's Voice

From: Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs

Caption: My grandmother as an infant, Credit: Family collection

When Afi Scruggs digitized an interview with her late grandmother, she recalled truism about technology: every time a format changes, important inf...

Bought by KALW, KUT, and PRX Remix

Added: May 26, 2011
Length: 02:12
Purchases: 3

Crescent City Blues

From: Richard Ziglar
Series: Still Singing the Blues

Caption: Patrons at Young at Heart Club in New Orleans' Pigeontown neighborhood., Credit: Barry Yeoman

Crescent City Blues takes listeners to the hidden world of New Orleans corner joints—bars far from the French Quarter, in neighborhoods like Centra...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KCMJ Community Radio, Radio New Zealand, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more

Added: Sep 24, 2010
Length: 55:00
Purchases: 19

Robin Kelley's Transcendental Thelonious Monk

From: Open Source

Christopher Lydon is in conversation hour with Robin Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. His superb biog...

Bought by KMUW, Prairie Public, KFOK-LPFM, KUOW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.