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From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
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From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WSLR, KCSM, Morehead State Public Radio, WLRH and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 20
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A centennial tribute to Max Roach, who set the pace for modern jazz drumming and became an outspoken activist for civil rights.

Bought by WSKG, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WWNO, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUAT and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Climate affects everyone, but not equally. Those affected first and worst are often the same communities that suffer from housing and income inequa...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
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A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast — a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land thef...

Bought by Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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On this week’s special edition of The Rhythm Atlas, host Denis McGilvray celebrates Juneteenth and Black Music Month. The playlist shines a light o...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KAMU


  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Long Mama Interview + Black History Month Celebration

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
“Sounds Jewish” marks Black History Month with songs of solidarity and celebration featuring African-Americans and Jewish-Americans.

Bought by KSTK and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Diggin' Diz: A Portrait Of Dizzy Gillespie

  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
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Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, Ellington was writing music that celebrated African-American culture, personalities,...

Bought by WJCT, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KTXK and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Jackie Robinson
Music tributes to African-American figures such as Paul Robeson and Joe Louis from Count Basie, Clifford Jordan, Charles Mingus, and others.

Bought by WLRH, KRCU Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WJSU, WESM 91.3 FM and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
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Music tributes to African-American figures such as Paul Robeson and Joe Louis from Count Basie, Clifford Jordan, Charles Mingus and others.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Andrew Hill's Black Fire LP
An hour-long jazz special: It was a year of raised hopes and devastating tragedy, and the world of jazz continued to reflect both the growing uneas...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WWNO, WRGY, Troy Public Radio, KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 24
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On this special EVERGREEN edition of The Rhythm Atlas, we celebrate African American Music Appreciation Month and Juneteenth. African American Musi...

Bought by KUCB, New Hampshire Public Radio, RADIOLEX, KAMU, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
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Born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica, the poet Kwame Dawes is the editor of Nebraska's literary magazine, PRAIRIE SCHOONER, and the 2021 successor t...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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We celebrate Black History Month with DaMaris Hill, the youngest and first living American poet to be signed to Bloomsbury Publishing. In the final...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Soul Music with Josh Miles of JM and The Sweets. In this first ever radio interview and performance with Josh Miles we discuss Self Discovery, Spi...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 26:21
  • Purchases: 1
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“Unprecedented” is one of the most overused words of 2020, but it reflects the superstorm of disruption brought on by an overlapping pandemic, raci...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Buffalo, New York, was once a booming industrial town fueled by cheap power from Niagara Falls, a center of commerce and trade, the first city in t...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Pathways for reducing carbon emissions include electrifying transportation, replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power. But in this time of n...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2020
  • Length: 58:58