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Caption: Adrian Rollini
They were inspired by the music emanating from New Orleans. First it was the riverboats that brought jazz north, but with the massive immigration o...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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“The Greatest Short Story of All Time?” Since childhood, the Ray Bradbury story, The Veldt, has fascinated me. It was one of the first stories tha...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:32
Caption: Sam Wooding
The introduction of jazz to European society before the 1920s is a complex story. While it was met with both enthusiasm and resistance, its influen...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, and Ben Webster. Each left an indelible mark on jazz, with their distinct styles and contributions to the developmen...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Back Room, NYC
It was one of the most infamous times in the history of New York. The city became the hub of a new emerging music: jazz, and the Big Apple was the ...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Lovie Austin
When the New Orleans community of Storyville was shuttered in 1917, musicians began traveling north to find work. No one could have been prepared f...

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  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Paul Robeson
At the turn of the century, 1900, entertainment promoters discovered the value of staging musical reviews for introducing musical scores. In order ...

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  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On this week's episode, we are spinning the new single from Queens of the Stone Age, Ocean Alley, and Bombino - plus we chat with Anchorage artist ...

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  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Natty Dominique
The Jam Session: It’s the proving ground for a musician. That’s where you test your chops. Your creativity. For 1920s jazz performers, these sessio...

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  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Armstrong & Ellington
They could not have been more opposite in their approach to jazz. Yet, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington had identical goals. Provide the best mus...

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  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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New collaborations from Thundercat x Tame Impala & The National x Taylor Swift plus checking out music out of FBX this week and chatting with FBX m...

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  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Valida Snow
Women have made vast contributions to the history of early jazz. Not only as vocalists, but as musicians, bandleaders, composers and lyricists. Unf...

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  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: 1929 House Rent party
Harlem Stride piano, boogie and skiffle were all created by the house rent party. Hosts opened up their apartments for a night, charging a fee to g...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Irving Berlin
Tin Pan Alley songsters were quick to pick up on the popularity of jazz in the 1920s. And, the lyricists, like Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen and Hoag...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Storyville
At the edge of the New Orleans French Quarter at the turn of the twentieth century Storyville kick started jazz. There are a couple of reasons for ...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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An array of horror tales that tackle the artistic ego, an original score, and field recordings to insulate a unique atmosphere for the mind.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:20:37
Caption: Jelly Roll Morton
Ferdinand’s Influence: Although his name is well known in the history of early jazz, he’s seldom named as a major player. Jelly Roll Morton. Yet, ...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Sammy Marques tells stories, one-man-shows that last an hour and more. The stories within the bigger stories are chapters of his life. Because they...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 25:28
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Sammy Marques, descended from Portuguese seamen, was expatriated from his native America by his missionary father. When he returned stateside he ma...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 27:56
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Sammy Marques is a raconteur. He frequently draws on personal experience to flesh out stories that seem always to embrace some humorous element. Th...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 27:30
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For three generations, Sammy Marques’ family was stuck in a sort of revolving door of emigration from Europe to the United States and back again. I...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 28:24
Caption: Sammy Marques
Sammy Marques has been a lot of things over the years. He was never a butcher, but he was certainly a baker. Twice. And armed with a wood lathe he ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 26:21
Caption: Take Me With You...
Here's the latest program, a musical journey through the past and present into possible future entertainment

  • Added: Mar 19, 2023
  • Length: 01:56:31
Caption: 1920s record shop
Interesting that there was an abundance of songs in the 1920s about places: streets, venues, cities and states. The musicians identified, through t...

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Twenty years into the 19th Century there was a string of something new. Cars, fashion, flight, and the arts and entertainment, including talking mo...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2