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An hour-long jazz special:
It was a year of raised hopes and devastating tragedy, and the world of jazz continued to reflect both the growing uneas...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WWNO, WRGY, Troy Public Radio, KAAD-LP and more
- Added: Jan 02, 2022
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 24
Stuck with a hermit at Yuletide
- Added: Dec 15, 2019
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 8
An empty church, an orphaned organ, a solo organist. Scott Lariviere is 26 years old and volunteers to try to keep a magnificent 4,500 pipe Casavan...
Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Nov 25, 2019
- Length: 08:27
- Purchases: 2
An hour-long program of early music, celebrating the holiday season with festive music from 17th- and 18th-century Mexico, Peru and Bolivia perform...
Bought by Maine Public Radio, KWIT, High Plains Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WNIJ and more
- Added: Aug 29, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
The shofar, an instrument made from a ram’s horn, is heard in synagogues all over the world during the Jewish High Holidays. It has also been heard...
Bought by WRTI, WWFM, WRGY, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 23
In the 1960s Herbie Hancock seemed to be everywhere on the jazz scene, recording both as a leader for Blue Note and as a sideman with Miles Davis a...
Bought by WNMU-FM, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WMOT, and WNMU-FM
- Added: Apr 05, 2018
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 4
We delve into the later years and music of the pianist's career with Monk biographer Robin D. G. Kelley.
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 59:00
We continue our coverage of Boats and Bluegrass 2012 with Corpse Reviver. This group is a collaborative of bluegrass performers paying tribute to t...
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 36:45
Among the many names adopted for the clarinet during the early years of jazz, the “noodle” is possible the most catchy. Feature are Johnny Dodds, B...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Aug 28, 2012
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 1
This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet a singer who seemed to have an answer for everything.
- Added: Aug 07, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of January (1/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an early Texas radio show that helped launch a nat...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of May (5/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an often-overlooked musician who helped lay the founda...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of July (7/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a legendary Texas event that became a success almost ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the second week of May (5/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the unlikely origins of one of the states best known...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the second week of August (8/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a historic recording session that helped set the s...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of January (1/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an artist who performed in one of the first Africa...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of February (2/25): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a home recording studio that helped produce som...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of July (7/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the pioneers of Chicano soul
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the second week of July (7/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a city ordinance that banned freak dancing.
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of December (12/25): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a multi instrumentalist who combined gospel an...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of December (12/15): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician whose name may have been small, but ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of September (9/20): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a farmer and preacher who had a brief but influ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the second week of September (9/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of country music’s most famous singers, wh...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the last week of August (8/30): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a little known musician who played a big role in re...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the second week of August (8/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneer of soul music who also enjoyed singing c...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
