PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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Original stride pianist James P. Johnson began his professional recording career in 1916 with the Aeolian Company by recording several piano rolls....
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Music from before David Bowie, Lou Reed, Harry Nillson, Vanilla Fudge and others found their commercial sound. Guess what? It sounded like what w...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 03:02:24
- Purchases: 1
First half of the show focuses on the rarely heard New Orleans R&B songs and artists of the early 1950s. Rick Coleman who authored the definitive ...
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 05:48:17
This program features those wonderfully talented lyricists of the 1920s who created such memorial songs as "Margie," "You Took Advantage of Me," "T...
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- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Joseph Anthony Livingston, nicknamed “Fud,” played accordion and piano in his youth. But, in his teens, he found the saxophone more to his liking. ...
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- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Tin Pan Alley, near Union Square in New York City, became the center for music publishing by 1915. The world of formulaic songwriting – songs with ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
The music of american legend James Hubert "Eubie" Blake. Pianist, composer, vocalist, and a man who could reinvent himself as times demanded.
- Added: Feb 13, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 4
Cladys "Jabbo" Smith is one of the finest exponents of early jazz trumpet, yet he is overshadowed by Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and many oth...
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 2
A long game of "before they were..." A game for tracking a musician's output from before they found their sound (or were branded with a sound). O...
- Added: Jan 06, 2013
- Length: 03:10:23
Jody and Susie Edwards were apparently married on stage at the Standard Theatre, Philadelphia. They went on perform for several decades billing th...
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- Added: Dec 13, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
During Bix Beiderbecke’s years of recording, there were literally hundreds of sound-alike trumpeters and cornet players. They all wanted to sound l...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Trombonist Miff Mole and trumpeter Red Nichols, two highly talented jazz musicians, met in New York in the early 1920s. Together they prefected wh...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 2
American icon Cole Porter learned piano and violin at age six. He became very good at both, but he disliked the violin's harsh sound and so his ene...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
From: Chris Goldstein
Robert Platshorn "Bobby Tuna" spent 30 years behind bars after being convicted of marijuana smuggling in the 1970's. Out of prison now, Bob has pie...
- Added: Nov 25, 2009
- Length: 30:46
Spotlight on Eric Clapton as one Who Changed the way Guitar is Played and His Tremendous Influence on the Guitar Community ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2008
- Length: 58:00
The Byrds - Buffalo Springfield Connection and the impact they have on the global music community.
Bought by Prairie Public, KZYX, WTIP, and WTIP
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 4
The Most Incredibly Awesome Guitar Music in the World ! - Back to Back ...
- Added: Jan 14, 2008
- Length: 58:00
- Added: Jan 12, 2008
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 11, 2008
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 1
It's All About Guitar Music - All Genre', All Decades and All Generations !
- Added: Jan 11, 2008
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
All Guitar Music - All the Time - From the Very Best Players Known - and a Party Too !
- Added: Jan 11, 2008
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
Spotlight on Jimi Hendrix as one Who Changed the way Guitar is Played and His Tremendous Influence on the Guitar Community ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2008
- Length: 58:03
- Purchases: 2
