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This episode of A New York Minute In History explores the Women’s Rights Movement from the Seneca Falls Convention in Central New York in 1848 to e...
Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WYAP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUAF Public Radio, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Oct 24, 2018
- Length: 59:29
- Purchases: 5
TED Talks meets The Moth meets The History Channel? ...with Dead Ladies. In this episode -- Constance Markievicz. The Irish revolutionary known as ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2018
- Length: 33:11
Often imitated, but never duplicated, the "Jucy Lucy" is a Minneapolis food favorite. In this piece, learn the backstory and true mark of this icon...
- Added: Sep 28, 2014
- Length: 03:58
In the earliest jazz bands of the 1920s, the baritone and bass saxophones were relegated to the rhythm section, the bass line. But everything bega...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 58:53
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
Ellis was first a jazz pianist and later jazz vocalist who recorded numerous sides with the Dorsey Brothers, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, and many other...
- Added: Sep 21, 2012
- Length: 58:54
Some of the earliest Blue Note recording sessions featured the trumpet of Sidney DeParis, clarinet of Edmund Hall, and piano of Art Hodes. They ca...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 58:52
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
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
A new book, Road to Valor, by Aili and Andres McConnon is the inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatest ...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 28:51
- Purchases: 1
The blues melded with jazz long before the first recordings in the late teens. Although the music was, at least at first, structured on the 8 and 1...
- Added: Jul 31, 2012
- Length: 58:54
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
The origin of his nickname is disputed. Regardless of the reasons, Francis Joseph Julian Spanier was simply known as Muggsy. Before Bix Beiderbeck...
- Added: Jul 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
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
Legions of fans from Boston to Buenos Aires can recite the story of the child born Kal-El, scion of the doomed planet Krypton, who was rocketed to ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Jul 03, 2012
- Length: 19:58
- Purchases: 1
America loves innovation and the can-do spirit that made this country what it is-a world leader in self-government, industry and technology, and po...
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 14:41
In an age when physical books matter less and less, here is a THRILLING story about a book that meant everything. A thousand years ago the most per...
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 29:00
It’s Windy Hear! But, in the late 1920s and early ‘40s, much of that wind was coming from the great horns of musicians like Ruben Reeves and Louis...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
The use of the term Red Hot Mama’s supposedly emerged in the early 1920s. In 1929, songsters Jack Yellen and Milton Ager wrote, I’m the Last of the...
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
New Orleans, Chicago and New York were the primary hubs for jazz by the mid 1920s. The influences from each location enriched the result. Musicians...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: May 10, 2012
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
When Kansas City born Frankie Teschmacher joined the Austin High Gang in the mid-1920s, his instrument of choice was alto saxophone. But, in his yo...
- Added: Apr 26, 2012
- Length: 58:57
Jazz Historian Albert McCarthy writes in his book, Big Band Jazz (Exeter Books, NY 1974), “When jazz and dance music began to dominate American pop...
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 58:57
In 1922 composer Harry Warren created his first hit, "Rose of the Rio Grande," with lyrics by Edgar Leslie. From that successful launch came a prod...
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
He has one foot in vaudeville and one foot in jazz, and he was a show unto himself. Ted Lewis was the only popular bandleader who could show up wit...
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 59:01
In 1921, the Coconut Grove nightclub was the place to see and be seen. Hollywood stars frequently the club located in a peaceful rural setting sur...
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 58:57
