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NL 24-10: Jazz Women of the 1960s, 3/4/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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The 1960s is one of the most talked-about, argued-about, mythologized periods of American history. This edition of Night Lights highlights some wom...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
To Be Somebody: The Hazel Scott Story
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A profile of the pianist, singer, actress, and civil-rights activist, whose music drew on influences from classical to boogie-woogie, and who was t...

Bought by KVCR


  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Buildings Speak: Stories of Pioneering Women Architects
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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Perfect for Women's History Month programming. "Buildings Speak: Stories of Pioneering Women Architects," a new special from The Kitchen Sisters, h...

Bought by KALW, WRGY, WKSU, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 54:56
  • Purchases: 52
House/Full of Black Women
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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For some eight years now, 34 Black women from the Bay Area — artists, scholars, midwives, nurses, an architect, an ice cream maker, a donut maker, ...

Bought by KASU, WWNO, High Plains Public Radio, CHSR-FM 97.9, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 53:27
  • Purchases: 45
Jazz Women of the 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring female jazz performers and composers of the 1960s.

Bought by WNMU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KMUN, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 39
Jazz Women of the 1980s*
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.

Bought by KLCC and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz Women of the 1990s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Remembering Angela Lansbury
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Young Angela
Angela Lansbury in her own words with music from her entire career from Gaslight through Murder She Wrote--All Mixed Up

  • Added: Oct 16, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:06
The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Throughout jazz history the harp has rarely been heard as a soloing or primary instrument, but in the 1950s and 60s Dorothy Ashby, a musician out o...

Bought by WJCT, KRCU Public Radio, WVTF, KLCC, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
The "Supreme" All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Message From RBG
A Supreme Court mashup highlighting the continuing struggle for Woman's Rights with music and history colliding once again--Statements on Roe versu...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:56
  • Purchases: 1
NL 22-12: Jazz Women of the 1940s, 3/14/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Trumpeter Billie Rogers, vibraphonist Marjorie Hyams, and other unsung heroines of the World War II era in jazz.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
NL 20-13: Ella '57: Ella Fitzgerald Flies High, 3/23/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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We take a look at Ella Fitzgerald in 1957, one of the singer's busiest and most memorable years on record.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:04
Late Lady: Billie Holiday On Verve In The 1950s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star. ...

Bought by KMUW, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, High Plains Public Radio, WKMS and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
NL 20-12: Late Lady: Billie Holiday On Verve In The 1950s, 3/16/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
One for Marian: Marian McPartland
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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We’ll hear some McPartland recordings with a special emphasis on her own compositions, as well as excerpts from a 1975 interview in which she talks...

Bought by KLCC and High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2019
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 2
A Shortcut Through 2017
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Goodbye Village Voice
A look back at the last twelve months, a retrospective of a truly transitional year with a disturbing loss of morals, constitution values and major...

Bought by 'The Sea', Indie3 Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KDUR, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:22
  • Purchases: 13
Jazz Her Way: Nancy Wilson In The 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Wilson's records blended big-band and small-group elements with pop orchestration and doses of soul that could be both big-city hip and suburban cool.

Bought by KAAD-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMUW, WCPN, WRGY and more


  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
Women of the Blues 2015 (Episode 1537)
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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The Blues genre is filled with incredibly talented women, and this week's playlist spotlights just a small cross section of that talent.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WJSU, and WSGE


  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Proving Herself: Melba Liston, Arranger and First Lady of Trombone
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz: An exploration of the path of Melba Liston as she became an arranger/composer and an instrumentalist in the j...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KMUW and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
The Mikie Show #71, EveAnna
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Join us for episode seventy-one as we speak with EveAnna Manley, President of Manley Laboratories, a manufacturer of beautifully engineered and cra...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 28:02
Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...

Bought by WORT, WJCT, WTJU, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WCSU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
Lady Writes the Blues (1-Hour Special)
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: McCoy in the studio circa 1984.
You may not know Rosemarie McCoy’s name, but you probably know her songs. Over 800 of them spanning the full range of American pop music, from Rhyt...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WSKG, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WBEZ and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 6
Edna the Engineer: Who Gets to be a Scientist?
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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You know the stereotype: white guy in a lab coat with crazy hair and an experiment gone awry. But the picture of science is changing. In this episo...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WFHB, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Mikie Show #58, Carolyn
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Woo boy another big show comes your way! This time we speak with historian, curator, author and lecturer, Carolyn O’Bagy Davis. Credited with virtu...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
On the Move in Mongolia
From: Outer Voices
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There I was, an Indian woman on the move in a strange new land - Mongolia - and it didn't feel so strange. So much resonated - especially the voic...

Bought by KUER, KZYX, WRPI, KFOK-LPFM, and KUNM


  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 23:43
  • Purchases: 5