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Making Contact partnered with the 2014 National Poetry Slam to produce this special open mic highlighting the power of thoughtful, truth telling, c...
- Added: Sep 22, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
When jazz enthusiasts think of early violin performances, they may naturally land upon the name Joe Venuti. Indeed, Joe was one of the earliest, bu...
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- Added: Sep 17, 2014
- Length: 58:59
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The All Star Baseball game this month is a perfect opportunity to introduce you to a new opera about a great Negro League Baseball Player.
- Added: Jul 09, 2014
- Length: 06:35
A native of Panama, Luis Russell moved to New Orleans in 1919 after winning a $3000 lottery. He became a mainstay house pianist. But, in 1925 he mo...
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- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 59:00
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Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders should be better known. But, they’re not. Part of the reason is their geographical location: Los Angeles - 1929. A...
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- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 58:59
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The review, Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds of 1928, opened at the Liberty Theatre on 42nd Street in May of that year.
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- Added: Apr 16, 2014
- Length: 58:58
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Connie’s Hot Chocolates opened at the Hudson Theater, 44th Street east of Broadway, on June 20, 1929. It was a slice of Harlem nightlife.
- Added: Mar 13, 2014
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 2
She billed herself as “The Queen of the Blues.” But, technically, she wasn’t a blues singer.
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- Added: Jan 12, 2014
- Length: 58:57
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In the final episode, the NAACP begins efforts to fight the death sentences handed down in Helena, led in part by Scipio Africanus Jones, the leadi...
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- Added: Jan 06, 2014
- Length: 58:57
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In the 1920s, Ellington performed in nightclubs as the bandleader of a sextet, a group that in time grew to a 10-piece ensemble. The nucleus of thi...
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- Added: Oct 12, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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Duke Ellington called his music "American Music" rather than jazz, and described those who impressed him as "beyond category. "He is widely conside...
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- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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Once you hear the music of Sam Wooding and his Chocolate Dandies you, too, will be curious why his work is not as familiar to connoisseurs of early...
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- Added: Sep 23, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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Pioneering blues and jazz guitarist Lonnie Johnson began playing professionally in New Orleans in 1917. He toured Europe with Marion Cook’s Souther...
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- Added: Jul 26, 2013
- Length: 58:58
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After serving time, finding food, a job and a place to live with a criminal record can become an almost impossible task. On this edition, Women bu...
- Added: Jul 18, 2013
- Length: 28:56
When washboard was King. Well, that may be a stretch, but the popularity of that musical instrument, when it was used as such, reached a height in...
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- Added: Jun 24, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
This program is devoted to those pioneers of jazz piano from Scott Joplin to Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller.
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- Added: Jun 07, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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Christi was a pregnant teenager who gave up her baby for adoption and then changed her mind. The story from there goes places no one saw coming. Pr...
- Added: Apr 29, 2013
- Length: 07:28
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 02:15
The music of american legend James Hubert "Eubie" Blake. Pianist, composer, vocalist, and a man who could reinvent himself as times demanded.
- Added: Feb 13, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 4
Isaac L. “Banjo Ikey” Robinson was a multi instrumentalist jazz musician who specialized on banjo. Even when most musicians had stuffed their banjo...
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- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 58:56
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Bandleader Andy Kirk gave up his post office carrier in 1925 to try his hand in music. He showed talent on the saxophone and tuba, but it evolved t...
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- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 58:58
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This week it's our monthly series The Tin Roof Project, where well-known Southerners bring their own true stories to life. This month's Tin Roofer ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 29:00
He was a master ”Tickler”. Stride piano is the term attached later to a specific rhythmic style where the left hand follows the pattern of the rig...
- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 58:54
The duet of Henry "Red" Allen and Coleman "The Bean" Hawkins, 1933.
- Added: Aug 10, 2012
- Length: 58:52
Sen. Spencer Coggs addresses a crowd on the capitol square upon his return to Madison March 12, 2011
- Added: Mar 12, 2011
- Length: 02:04
