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The legend of musician Buddy Bolden has stretched well beyond the city limits of New Orleans. Whether or not half of the stories are true, really d...
Bought by WRGY and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Oct 06, 2012
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 2
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
Thelonious Monk is an original and unique voice in the shaping and the sound of American music. Both his compositions and his inimitable piano play...
Bought by KVMR and WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Sep 28, 2012
- Length: 59:04
- Purchases: 2
They were known as the big band of the 1920s who sounded a little “country.” Not because they were from Nashville, nor did they have a twang in th...
Bought by KMUN
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
After months of intermittent phone calls, text messages and emails Dee Dee Bridgewater finally made her debut appearance live in studio on the Ste...
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 59:57
"The 47% Mix" with Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Ethel Waters, Ry Cooder, Menomena, The Mills Brothers, Bing Crosby, Alan Price, a...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 19:31
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 02:58:19
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
Its the one you`ve been waiting for the grand finale of our month long musical celebrations marking the 1st year anniversary of the Steve Edwards S...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 01:59:07
- Added: Aug 27, 2012
- Length: 13:14
- Purchases: 1
In this first of a two-part series, Dred-Scott Keyes interviews winners of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Awards David W. Blight, author of "American Ora...
- Added: Aug 26, 2012
- Length: 56:00
American and South Africa’s schools are similar. Both have fallen short of producing an educational system consistent with its national goals of e...
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 14:46
THE DROP OUT DILEMMA IS SPECIAL CONVERSATION ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS IN THE ROCHESTER AREA. THE WXXI NEWS TEAM HAS BEEN TAKING AN IN-DEPT...
Bought by NPR Illinois
- Added: Aug 22, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
A high school student and recent graduate detail their struggles staying in school and what pushed them to persevere.
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 42:54
Sondra Samuels of North Side Achievement Zone and Eric Mahmoud of Seed Academy and and Harvest Preparatory School discuss solutions and impact to t...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 59:07
To be black and male in America carries with it a certain baggage. Two out of three black male students in Rochester are failing to graduate. "Need...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 27:10
The duet of Henry "Red" Allen and Coleman "The Bean" Hawkins, 1933.
- Added: Aug 10, 2012
- Length: 58:52
The Soul; show is 1 as we rewind the clock to August 13th 2011 for the debut of the Steve Edwards Soul Show on American radio. Featuring the orig...
- Added: Aug 09, 2012
- Length: 02:57:27
Shining shoes to music publishing in a few short years. To Clarence Williams it may have seen much longer. By 1910, he was considered a leading s...
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 58:57
Available to all PRX stations! Remembering John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk.
Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WMMT, Spokane Public Radio, KPVL, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 01:58:58
- Purchases: 5
The 2nd quarter of the soundtrack to your soul was a busy one! We shared the words and music of nine artists talking about everything in their live...
- Added: Jul 19, 2012
- Length: 02:58:38
Born in New Orleans in 1902, Omer Simeon is the least known of the early clarinetist of the 1920s. He was apparently very quite and reserved, didn...
- Added: Jul 06, 2012
- Length: 58:58
A brand new feature that aims to fill the gap where smooth Jazz failed! This series pays attention to the innovators of a music format that gave us...
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 01:39:06
The Latin Journey continues with patriarch of the E family-Pete Escovedo talking congas, timbales and mentoring his highly influential family! A Ca...
- Added: Jun 17, 2012
- Length: 01:58:56
Here is one of the overlooked jazz pianists who, if he's lived beyond his 30-years, would rank with Early Hines and Count Basie. Very little is kn...
- Added: Jun 09, 2012
- Length: 01:01:02
