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Caption: Courtney Burton, Credit: Tera Gerardin
Vocalist Courtney Burton and the Minnesota Jazz Chamber Orchestra perform distinctive holiday shows. In a conversation with Phil Nusbaum, Courtney ...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Courtney Burton, Credit: Tera Gerardin
Vocalist Courtney Burton leads the Minnesota Jazz Chamber Orchestra in four holiday shows this season. Catch the act at 7pm Thursday December 21 at...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: KBEM logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Kenne Thomas has a new CD called Yesterdays. Kenne is a drummer. But his major reference point is the saxophone sound he heard as a kid growing up ...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Kenne Thomas, Credit: Diane Thomas
Kenne Thomas has a new CD called Yesterdays. The CD release event takes place at the Dakota in Minneapolis, Tuesday November 9 at 7PM. Kenne is a d...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Alan Jesperson, Credit: Craig Evans
The annual Laughing Waters Bluegrass Festival, held 1-7 PM on Labor Day at Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis presents the best of local bluegrass, plu...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Nanci Griffith
A one-hour version of an appreciation of the music and life of revered singer-songwriter NANCI GRIFFITH who died August 13, 2021 in Nashville at th...

Bought by WUTC, KNCT FM, WNMU-FM, Spokane Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 26
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This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we’re going back to our archives to welcome vocalist Christy Bennett and her Fumée Gypsy Project, featuring Art Davi...

Bought by WLPR and WDCB


  • Added: Jul 13, 2021
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on Chicago Jazz Live we celebrate the 1963 recording, "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman" with saxophonist and vocalist, Bill Overton and ...

Bought by WDCB and WLPR


  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome Christy Bennett’s Fumée Gypsy Project, with Art Davis, Don Stiernberg, Don Stille, and Christian Dillingh...

Bought by WLPR and WDCB


  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Cedar Avenue Big Band, Credit: Jim Richards
The Cedar Avenue Big Band. After 25 years they still love playing big band music, big band fans love what they do. Currently, the group plays secon...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
What does a jazz orchestra want to do? It wants to play for dancers, that’s what. We go on location to one of the Minnesota Jazz Orchestra’s monthl...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
What does a jazz orchestra want to do? It wants to play for dancers, that’s what. We go on location next to one of the Minnesota Jazz Orchestra’s m...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Matthew Mahaffey with Phil Nusbaum, Credit: Connie Shaver
Next Saturday night at the Ordway in Saint Paul, The Oratorio Society of Minnesota presents The Greatest Generation. The production is a tribute to...

  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
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This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome Libby York, a lovely person with a lovely voice, joined by a great band: Jeremy Kahn on piano, Mike Allem...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Cedar Avenue Big Band, Credit: Jim Richards
The Cedar Avenue Big Band. After 25 years, it’s still a leading Twin Cities Big Band. Why do they do it? They just love playing big band music, and...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Cedar Avenue Big Band, Credit: Jim Richards
The Cedar Avenue Big Band. After 25 years they still love playing big band music, big band fans love what they do. Currently, the group plays secon...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Andrew Walesch and Big Band, Credit: Ian Walesch
Andrew Walesh is a singer like no other when it comes to the timeless Frank Sinatra repertoire. Sinatra’s songs, arrangements and interpretations ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2017
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Maud Hixson, Credit: Olivia Wilcox
Judy Garland, the 20th century show-biz icon from Minnesota is one of Maud Hixson’s great inspirations as a singer. Maud has rounded up a group of ...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 05:01
Caption: Becky J and Rahjta Ren, Credit: Jim Larson
When Becky J and Rahjta Ren perform, it's a close collaboration between a great singer and an imaginative keyboardist.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 04, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Shake it!, Credit: Oz Lang
A tender look at two modern photo technologies - Polaroid and digital photography - and the human and visual connections we make with them.

Bought by WYSO, WCBE, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KGOU, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
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Mitch Skinner finds out how to survive while selling traditional books.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 05:12
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On September 3rd our castaway was Ruby Simkoff, who since 1990 has been one of the most recognized voices on WMPG Radio in Portland, Maine. Ruby ho...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:22:44
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"I had moved to New York and spent a couple of years here scuffling around. I was getting a little discouraged, playing a lot of weddings. It wasn'...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Apr 20, 2012
  • Length: 13:41
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Audrey, John and Paul Ingles
[NOTE: Although this version may be broadcast, there are no breaks in it and is primarily intended for online listening. The 59:00 and 54:00 versi...

Bought by WGUC/ WVXU and KCSM


  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 01:17:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Mary talks about paddling all the lakes in Itasca County, all 1,007 of them.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2010
  • Length: 10:47