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Rhythm Atlas 275 2023-02-13 Mardi Gras & Carnival Special
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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Join host Denis McGilvray this week for The Rhythm Atlas Mardi Gras & Carnival Special. You’ll hear festive music from across the Americas: brass b...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KAMU


  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
Folk Salad Airing 2-5-2023
From: SCOTT Aycock
Series: Folk Salad- Certified Organic Music
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We are celebrating Black History Month on Folk Salad with the first part of our show focusing on black Oklahoma musicians from the 1920's to the 60...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:56
Rhythm Atlas 272 2023-01-23
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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This week’s edition of The Rhythm Atlas features Scottish music for the birthday of Robert Burns and the famed Celtic Connections Festival taking p...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KAMU


  • Added: Jan 22, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
Black Composers in Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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This hour explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Against Tomorrow, released the same ...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
2023-01-13 REWIND: Coping with Climate Through Music
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Music and social movements have historically gone hand in hand. Folk music played a unifying role for the labor movements in the United States. Mus...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
20230113: REWIND: Coping with Climate Through Music , 1/13/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Music and social movements have historically gone hand in hand. Folk music played a unifying role for the labor movements in the United States. Mus...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
NL 23-03: Dear Martin, P.S.: More Jazz Tributes To Martin Luther King Jr., 1/9/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz recordings in honor of the civil-rights leader made by James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and others.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Winter AND Cold
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next "Sounds Jewish" for a global Jewish playlist expressing the full emotional power of winter, plus a nod to that dang wind chill.

  • Added: Dec 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Rhythm Atlas 268 2022-12-26 Best World Music Albums of 2022 Pt. 1
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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On this week’s special program, we’ll take a listen to some of the Best World Music Albums of 2022. You’ll hear artists that represent the wide var...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KAMU


  • Added: Dec 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
A Night Lights Wonderland
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Night Lights celebrates the holidays with jazz from Fats Waller, Joe Williams, Claude Thornhill, and more.

Bought by KCME, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and WCVE


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
NL 22-52: A Night Lights Wonderland, 12/19/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Night Lights celebrates the holidays with jazz from Fats Waller, Joe Williams, Claude Thornhill, and more.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
It’s Jazz, Charlie Brown: The Vince Guaraldi Story
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A look at the early jazz career and subsequent Peanuts success of pianist Vince Guaraldi, including interviews with jazz critic Doug Ramsey, Guaral...

Bought by KMUW and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • 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
Spooky Halloween
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Get ready for Halloween with The Children's Hour in a show full of spooky ghost stories and the best in new Halloween music releases for kids.

Bought by KVCR, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRVS, Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
Rhythm Atlas 259 2022-10-24 Halloween & Día de los Muertos
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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We hope you can tune in to The Rhythm Atlas Halloween and Día de los Muertos special. Host Denis McGilvray features a playlist with joyful songs in...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KAMU, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 3
NL 22-44: Jazz Haunts for Halloween, 10/24/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Smoke dreams, sorcerors, ghosts, and stalking monsters! We'll experience those paranormal jazz encounters with those spectors through the music of ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #278 ("Rock and Roll")
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
20221024: Spooky Halloween, 10/24/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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Get ready for Halloween with The Children's Hour in a show full of spooky ghost stories and the best in new Halloween music releases for kids.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Rhythm Atlas 256 2022-10-03 Indigenous Peoples' Day Special
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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On this special program, we’ll celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day - which takes place on Monday, October 10th in 2022. The playlist includes a broad...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Spokane Public Radio, and KAMU


  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 3
Rhythm Atlas 255 2022-09-26 All Vinyl 5th Birthday Special
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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This week on The Rhythm Atlas, we’ll celebrate 5 years of being on the air with a special show featuring an all vintage vinyl playlist. You’ll hear...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Spokane Public Radio, and KAMU


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 3
Black, Brown and Beige - Duke Ellington’s Historic Jazz Symphony
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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In 1943, Duke Ellington debuted a landmark 43-minute musical portrayal of the African-American experience at Carnegie Hall. We'll hear music from i...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KMUW, WVIA, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 20
NL 22-36: Duke Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige, 8/29/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In January 1943, bandleader and composer Duke Ellington took his orchestra into Carnegie Hall for the first time and chose to make his debut with a...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
WoodWarbler's JerryGrass Show
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
Caption: Jerry with Wolfie, Credit: royalty fee via https://www.flickr.com/photos/clender/7246206076/in/photostream/
A 2022 salute to the enduring creative JazzGrass genius of the late Jerry Garcia, for the High Holy Daze between his birthdate of August 1, 1942 an...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:54
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