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Jazz Women of the 1940s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring women instrumentalists who thrived in the upside-down jazz world of wartime America.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WJCT, WGBH Radio Boston, High Plains Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15
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
Renaissance Women: The Music of Courtesans
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Rhythm Atlas 277 2023-02-27 International Women's Day Special
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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On this week’s special edition of The Rhythm Atlas, host Denis McGilvray celebrates International Women’s Day with a playlist featuring bands whose...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KAMU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
Rediscovering Hildegard
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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As we continue to learn about women composers of the past, twelfth-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen remains one of the most studied, ...

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Dear Mom
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish celebrates Mother's Day with a global Jewish playlist extolling maternal virtues, exploring our relationships with mom, and poking a ...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ladies' Choice (Vol.7)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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A fresh two hour set of all-women musicians who play bluegrass, jazz and/or that visionary continuum of sounds in between

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:40
Womenfolk - International Women's Day
From: Ellen Stanley
Series: Womenfolk Radio
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International Women's Day Special

  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
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
Women Empowered
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
March 8th is International Women’s Day. March is also Women’s History Month. Sounds Jewish celebrates with a global playlist of empowering music by...

Bought by WLPR and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Nanci Griffith | Tent Show Radio | Episode 21:17
From: Tent Show Radio
Caption: Nanci Grifith, Credit: Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith got an early start on her path to performing and songwriting. At the age of 6 she began to write songs, thinking of it as “part of t...

Bought by KFCF FM, WNMU-FM, and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
WoodSongs 652: Judy Collins
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Judy Collins on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, the legendary folk icon Judy Collins performs and reads from her new book "Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Mus...

Bought by KUAR, KKRN, KZUM, KLCC, KDLG and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 38
Rhythm Atlas 177 2021-03-06 International Women's Day
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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On this week's special program, we’ll celebrate International Women’s Day - which takes place on March 8th - by featuring women artists from around...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
Healing New Mexico
From: Generation Justice Admin
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Antonia Montoya, New Mexico Native is also known as “Alonerly” talks to Generation Justice cultivating practicum member to discuss her New Album “...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 20:53
Episode 21: The Ladies Show
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
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Leonard hits shuffle on his iPad.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2020
  • Length: 01:53:01
EP142 Erja Lyytinen
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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A trip to Finland to hear one of the Country's premier Blues artists.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:53
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
The Rhythm Atlas 78: 2019-03-31 Women of the World
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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On this weekly radio program, you'll hear an eclectic mix of fantastic music from around the globe. In celebration of Women’s History Month, toda...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Apr 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
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
Ladies' Choice Vol. 4
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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Two hours of the finest female artists that play music from the JazzGrass sonic spectrum, for all the ladies trying to get'r done in this increasin...

Bought by Bandon Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 903 - Rhiannon Giddens 2016
From: Savannah Music Festival LIVE
Series: Savannah Music Festival LIVE - Season Nine
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A performance given at the 2016 Savannah Music Festival in the North Garden Assembly Room at the Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum.

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, WUFT, WNMU-FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 5