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We're picking up the thread of a long conversation with Gunther Schuller. He’s the man who first mapped a Third Stream of “jazzical” music between ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 33:10
- Purchases: 4
Fifteen, 3-minute vignettes celebrating the contributions of African Americans in classical music.
Bought by Texas Public Radio, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM, Texas Public Radio, Vermont Public, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM and more
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 45:00
- Purchases: 10
The Mummers Day Parade is as quintessentially South Philadelphia as Ben Franklin or Willy Penn, a Philly cheese steak or Italian water ice.
It’s un...
- Added: Dec 13, 2013
- Length: 23:29
Coleman Hawkins was known as "Hawk" or "Bean" among his contemporaries because of his keen intellect and ingenious approach to common tunes. He was...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 08, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
The violin and viola once owned by Mozart himself speak through the composer's music during the Boston Early Music Festival, thanks to the Salzburg...
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 01:57:59
- Purchases: 6
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
Master violin maker Amnon Weinstein has spent the past two decades finding and restoring violins that survived the Holocaust. In April, 2012, he br...
Bought by Iowa Public Radio
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 1
On this special episode we will hear music from all of the artists, albums and singles in the 2013 class of the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame!
Bought by Radio New Zealand, WSLR, and KPVL
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
A retrospective of 2012, mixing the sounds and emotions of an incredibly dark and stormy year into a hour long montage.
Bought by KCLU, KVMR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, North Country Public Radio, KSFR and more
- Added: Dec 22, 2012
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 7
Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Bill Clinton, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Karl Rove, Brian Williams, Richard Nixon's Head and others wrap the 2012 Electi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 59:44
This, the fourth edition of the Great Northern Radio Show takes us to the Boardman Auditorium at the Eveleth-Gilbert High School on Minnesota's Iro...
- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 01:56:31
- Purchases: 3
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama completely mixed up in a special "Election Shortcut". The first Shortcut was broadcast in November of 1972 in reaction...
Bought by KBRP Community Radio
- Added: Oct 24, 2012
- Length: 59:56
- Purchases: 1
CHARLIE PARKER was one of the most influential improvising soloists in JAZZ, and a central figure in the development of BOP in the 1940s. A legenda...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Oct 06, 2012
- Length: 50:43
- Purchases: 1
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
A musician and a restauranteur from Liverpool visit a festival of performances with traditional roots in Catalonia in North East Spain. They meet m...
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 33:33
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
The dynamic duo work of cornet Bix Beiderbecke and saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer was one of the greatest in early jazz. Their first recording dates...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 58:53
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
