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For the week of Bastille Day, jazz odes to the City of Light from Bud Powell, John Lewis, and others.
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: 58:58
A Fourth of July jazz celebration featuring the music by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Jackie McLean, Nina Simone and more.
- Added: Jun 27, 2019
- Length: 59:00
More jazz eulogies for departed jazz musicians, in honor of Memorial Day weekend.
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 59:02
In the late 1960s, young musicians such as The Free Spirits, the Fourth Way, and other now-forgotten fusioneers made the first attempts to blend ja...
- Added: Feb 22, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
America in the 1920s: Wall Street was on the rise, cops were on the take, jazz was in the air, and alcohol had been banished—but it certainly hadn’...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WVAS, KLCC and more
- Added: Feb 22, 2019
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 7
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
This one hour program is presented with the idea of airing authentic and original music from the electric era of the 60's and 70's...Many styles ar...
Bought by KEOS, GCR (Global Community Radio), KEOS, KEOS, WOUB and more
- Added: Aug 27, 2018
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 8
In the 1960s Herbie Hancock seemed to be everywhere on the jazz scene, recording both as a leader for Blue Note and as a sideman with Miles Davis a...
Bought by WNMU-FM, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WMOT, and WNMU-FM
- Added: Apr 05, 2018
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 4
As the black-pride movement gained momentum in the late 1960s and early 1970s, an increasing number of jazz artists began to incorporate the messag...
- Added: Feb 16, 2018
- Length: 58:57
Holiday jazz from Fats Navarro, Dexter Gordon, Louis Armstrong, Duke Pearson, Frank Sinatra, and others.
- Added: Dec 05, 2017
- Length: 58:59
We delve into the later years and music of the pianist's career with Monk biographer Robin D. G. Kelley.
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 59:00
A centennial celebration of the iconic drummer, featuring the music of his big bands and small groups, as well as some of his vocal recordings.
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 59:05
A program about Louis Armstrong’s mid-career years, in which he led the small-group All-Stars, scored chart hits with pop ballads, and became a Col...
- Added: Jul 06, 2017
- Length: 59:00
The Juke In The Back jumps into summer by spotlighting THE summertime holiday, the 4th of July. We're diggin' the 4th in song, ranging from songs a...
- Added: Jun 25, 2017
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 11
This program highlights the very best of electric music from the 60's and 70's for all audiences.
Bought by KEOS, GCR (Global Community Radio), KKRN, WOUB, KEOS and more
- Added: Apr 12, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 26
Full-Time Blues Radio honors Levon Helm for what would have been his 75th birthday.
- Added: May 19, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
We're picking up the thread of a long conversation with Gunther Schuller. He’s the man who first mapped a Third Stream of “jazzical” music between ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 33:10
- Purchases: 4
We continue our coverage of Boats and Bluegrass 2012 with Corpse Reviver. This group is a collaborative of bluegrass performers paying tribute to t...
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 36:45
On this special episode we will hear music from all of the artists, albums and singles in the 2013 class of the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame!
Bought by Radio New Zealand, WSLR, and KPVL
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Bill Clinton, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Karl Rove, Brian Williams, Richard Nixon's Head and others wrap the 2012 Electi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 59:44
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama completely mixed up in a special "Election Shortcut". The first Shortcut was broadcast in November of 1972 in reaction...
Bought by KBRP Community Radio
- Added: Oct 24, 2012
- Length: 59:56
- Purchases: 1
This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet a singer who seemed to have an answer for everything.
- Added: Aug 07, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of January (1/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an early Texas radio show that helped launch a nat...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of May (5/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an often-overlooked musician who helped lay the founda...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of July (7/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a legendary Texas event that became a success almost ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
