PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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A deep look inside the process of music discovery.
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:01
Our age-old response to this life on earth: yours, theirs, all of ours.
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
A deeper look inside the art of using fewer words to say more.
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
A look at the nature of performance, and its effect on performer and audience alike.
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:02
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
https://indianapublicmedia.org/porchlight/note-to-self.php
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 59:00
The hours around dawn, reflected upon in story and song.
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 59:00
One of the greats of early rock 'n' roll, remembered in story and song.
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 59:02
In the 1980s a new generation of women jazz musicians emerged who expanded their predecessors' push against the patriarchal boundaries of the jazz ...
- Added: Oct 13, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Indianapolis' Indiana Avenue neighborhood produced several of the most influential jazz artists to appear on the post-World War II jazz scene, incl...
- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 59:01
In this optional second hour, book editor Holly Gleason and 3 other contributors to the 2023 book release called PRINE ON PRINE: INTERVIEWS AND ENC...
Bought by WAMU, WRVO Public Media, KFSK, KSJE, KUHF and more
- Added: Sep 25, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
Jim Capobianco and Robert Rippberger talk the warmth of imperfection, grocery lists in odd places, and not killing the animators.
- Added: Sep 15, 2023
- Length: 18:24
A program featuring the 1970s music of alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, including commentary from Desmond friend and biographer Doug Ramsey.
- Added: Sep 01, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Exploring the emergence of a kinetic jazz scene in 1920s Indiana, with commentary from historian James Madison and others.
- Added: Aug 26, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi joins us to discuss a vital and often-overlooked period of the trumpeter’s career.
- Added: Jun 29, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Ellington kept his orchestra together in a changing economic landscape, continuing to create memorable music and expanding his compositional horizons.
- Added: Jun 08, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Pianist Don Shirley combined classical, jazz, and spiritual influences on the many recordings he made in the 1950s and 60s. A forgotten figure in ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Vibraphonist Gary Burton was still a teenager when he burst onto the 1960s jazz scene, going on to work with Stan Getz and make a number of memorab...
- Added: Jan 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
A look at the early jazz career and subsequent Peanuts success of pianist Vince Guaraldi, including interviews with jazz critic Doug Ramsey, Guaral...
- Added: Dec 02, 2022
- Length: 59:01
A program about American jazz artists performing in Europe in the late 1940s, including Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and others.
- Added: Oct 17, 2022
- Length: 59:00
An extended trailer to the upcoming public radio documentary, produced by Paul Ingles, on the early emergence and on-going stellar career of musici...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 09:37
- Purchases: 1
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
This hard-bitten 1957 movie about a desperate publicity agent and a powerful press maven (played by Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster, respectively) c...
- Added: Apr 01, 2022
- Length: 59:01
A celebration of the iconic drummer, featuring the music of his big bands and small groups, as well as some of his vocal recordings and excerpts fr...
- Added: Dec 31, 2021
- Length: 59:02
Author Sam Stephenson talks with us about the legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith and the ways in which his life intersected with New York City'...
- Added: Jun 10, 2021
- Length: 58:59
