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Caption: Kate DiCamillo, Credit: Courtesy: Candlewick Press
A conversation with YA and children’s author Kate DiCamillo about reading and writing.

Bought by KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Quick Study, the monthly podcast from the National Endowment for the Arts. This is where we’ll share stats and stories to help us better understand...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 1
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...

Bought by KLCC and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 107
Over the course of 13 or 14 tracks, this hour of The Roadhouse get focused with a set of blues from the 1970s and another of great soul blues. Dr. ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and WJAB


  • Added: Aug 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 3
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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...

Bought by KLCC and KCBX


  • Added: Aug 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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...

Bought by WNMU-FM and KCBX


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bix Beiderbecke
Tributes to Robert Downey Sr, Dusty Hill and Bix Beiderbecke with music, covers and film clips

  • Added: Aug 02, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:44
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Patrick Gallagher, Credit: Provided by Patrick Gallagher
My interview with character actor, Patrick Gallagher. Patrick has appeared in numerous films from "Master And Commander," "Sideways," to playing At...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2021
  • Length: 13:55
Caption: Storyville
In the late teens and early 1920s, there was a mass exodus of musicians from New Orleans. Most of them were headed to Chicago, but the lure of St. ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 16, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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...

Bought by KCBX and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
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 ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Brunswick record label
With the public's thirst for jazz, the number of record producers increased very quickly in the 1920s. Sounds good. But most of those new comers we...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Howlin' Brothers
Unconventional folk-blues-rock-bluegrass trio “The Howlin’ Brothers” perform live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also...

  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Carl Kress
With the exception of the piano, stringed instruments were the outsiders in early jazz. They were restricted to the rhythm section, and not conside...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kid Ory
When musicians began migrating north to Chicago in 1917, there was one item that was a must. Besides their suitcase and instrument, they had to hav...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Richard Pender
It comes in at just over 650 pages, and weighs-in at just under three-and-a-half pounds. It’s also worth every word. Why? Because, if there’s anyth...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1