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Black Kings of Swing
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
More than a decade before the Big Band Era of 1936, there was big band jazz, and they brought swing to their music. Fletcher Henderson, Duke Elling...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Plagues Upon the Earth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kyle Harper
They’re rooted deeply in our global past. Germs. They’ve always been with us. It’s our wealth, health, power and inequity that determine how well w...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
It Sounds So Easy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Armstrong
Improvisation is an inseparable part of jazz. The idea is that a musician takes the melody and embellishes the structure. It’s very much like compo...

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sideshow
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Dick Coy & his Racketeers, Credit: Genette Records
The program features musicians you may have never heard. Although very good, they were mostly territorial. That is, for whatever reason, they chose...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Gay Calif. Supreme Court Justice values struggle
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Martin Jenkins makes history as the first openly gay Supreme Court of California justice, and only the third Black man ever to serve on the state's...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Chords
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Chords Aplenty, Credit: Vector
I’ve heard comparisons between writing popular music and playing chess. There are the usual, recommended openings, but to stand out, writers need c...

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ocean Plastics
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Seth Blaustein
Massive wildfires, flooding and natural disasters: It’s obvious to most observers now that climate change is no hoax. But, most of us feel that the...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sid's Return
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sidney Bechet
One of the most talented New Orleans musicians is Sidney Bechet. Yet the soprano saxophonists is also the most overlooked. Had he not chosen to spe...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Satan's Notes
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sunset Cafe
With the introduction of jazz to a broader audience of Americans in 1917, there was vast criticism and a trickle of acceptance. Not everyone was re...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Creativity Culture & Capital
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sheoyki Jones
This week is a bit different: the podcast is divided into two parts with one subject: investing in the creative economy with Laura Callanan, foundi...

Bought by KMUN, RADIOLEX, KFAI Minneapolis, KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 5
How Money Works: Stop Being a Sucker
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Gretchen Ricker
It’s enjoyable to get involved in something that’s bigger than ourself. But debt should not be one of them. Yet, knowing that, our tendency is to b...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Banks in Chorus
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Billy Banks
Vocalist Billy Banks and other male Vocalists join the program this week to highlight those 1920s singers who were not crooners. In the way Crooner...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Condon-Freeman
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Eddie Condon
When guitarist Eddie Condon and saxophonist Bud Freeman were offered a chance to record traditional jazz in 1938, they jumped at the chance. This w...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Water Defenders
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: John Cavanaugh
Water. As people are becoming more aware of the seriousness of climate distruption, it’s become easier to discuss the shortage as well as the extre...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
At Home in the World
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book Cover, Credit: N. Putens
When the Sierra Club was created in 1892, its original mission was to preserve the wilderness. The men who formed the group under the leadership of...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Blue Orleans part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Entrance to Armstong Park
Congo Square: it’s in the heart of old town New Orleans, and considered by many as the birthplace of jazz. Just north of the French Quarter, the ne...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Blue Orleans
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Congo Square
Although the origin of the blues cannot be precisely known, it’s generally understood to have evolved in the Mississippi delta, just north of New O...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
High Waters
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ethel Waters
She began as a blues singer. Then turned to popular song with a jazz flavor. She was a movie star for her next recreation. And, finally, a gospel s...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Peter T. Coleman
Once a segment of the population becomes miserable, stabilization begins. That shouldn’t be a goal in American politics, but it certainly seems lik...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Golden Gates
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Club Alabam, Los Angeles
Although it’s not thought of as a mecca for early jazz, California had its day of musical inventiveness. Some of the more famous nightclubs sprung ...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Big Freedia, “Queen of Bounce” — no guns, more twerking!
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Big Freedia is credited with bringing New Orleans "Bounce" music to the rest of the USA, Credit: Brad Hebert
New Orleans musician Big Freedia is famous for her music and twerking; her life story and anti-gun activism are less well known.

  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:29
Bob Dylan-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Bob Dylan, Credit: 1961
Join us for a celebration of Bob Dylan's Birthday with Bob Fass, Big Joe Turner, Al Kooper, Les Crane, The Band, Richard Ashcroft, John Hammond, Em...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:06
  • Purchases: 1
Which One? Sheet Music or Record
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Joe Sullivan
By the late 1920s the day of the sheet music was fading as fewer family members had the musical talent. Piano’s were replaced by the phonograph. Wh...

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  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
A Path to Free College
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Michelle Miller-Adams
Quite a number of voices are heard lately calling for tuition free college. After all, European countries offer free tuition at their institutions ...

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  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Bonding
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Count Basie
Among all of the wonderful bands of the 1920s, only a hand full had the same personnel for a long period of time: Duke Ellington, Count Basie and L...

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  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1

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