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Andrew Heckler and Robbie Brenner talk metaphors, obligation, and looking for the hole.
- Added: Mar 06, 2020
- Length: 19:21
Bassist and 2020 NEA Jazz Master Reggie Workman talks about his storied career
Bought by Harford Community Radio
- Added: Feb 21, 2020
- Length: 28:53
- Purchases: 1
Actor Ayana Workman talks about working on Branden Jacobs Jenkins play, Everybody--an updated version of a 15th century morality play and a big ch...
Bought by KZUM and Harford Community Radio
- Added: Dec 13, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Crys Matthews is a talent whose Americana, country soul, bluesy folk rock creates a style all her own.
- Added: Nov 14, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Music of the pianist and composer-arranger who left his stamp on the bebop and hardbop era, as well as an interview with Dameron biographer Paul Co...
- Added: Sep 23, 2019
- Length: 59:00
RaMell Ross talks sacred moments, turning reality into a dreamscape, and why there’s no such thing as a documentary.
- Added: Feb 18, 2019
- Length: 19:30
Davu Seru is a north Minneapolis composer who has been influenced by experiences in Chicago and Ghana, and it all comes out in his music. Davu lead...
- Added: Feb 13, 2019
- Length: 08:00
Jazz singer Dianne Reeves believes in making music without boundaries.
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 29:44
- Purchases: 2
One of the world's most successful music producers got his start as a jazz trumpeter, arranger, and bandleader. We'll hear recordings he made in th...
- Added: Mar 11, 2018
- Length: 59:01
Actor Dion has narrated hundreds of audio books and is an aural shape-shifter.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Mar 02, 2018
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 1
Director Rob Meyer talks about the making of the independent film, Little Boxes.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Feb 09, 2018
- Length: 28:28
- Purchases: 1
Hour One of a lively ride through the story of the soul star’s all-too-brief career but long-enduring legacy. We’ll hear from other musicians, musi...
Bought by KFSK, WPVM 103.7, KMUW, KUHF, WRVO Public Media and more
- Added: Jan 28, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 18
Executive Director of the Delta Blues Museum Shelley Ritter keeps the blues alive and honors its history.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jan 19, 2018
- Length: 22:42
- Purchases: 1
It's Sonny Rollins 87th birthday and he sat down with the NEA's Josephine Reed to talk about his life in music.
- Added: Aug 31, 2017
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
Ron Simons became a producer to shine a light on untold stories.
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Aug 11, 2017
- Length: 29:06
- Purchases: 1
Nique Love Rhodes
We have a social entrepreneur of a different kind, she is a rapper! You will have an opportunity to learn how the social and bus...
- Added: Jul 06, 2017
- Length: 39:03
An hourlong program of classic jazz, exploring a collection of influential jazz material know as "The Birth of the Cool" recorded by a circle of mu...
Bought by Radio New Zealand
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Anita Monga talks restoring fragments, revolutionary women, and honoring the legendary film preservationist, David Shepherd.
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 20:20
A look at one of hardbop's greatest front lines: Trumpeter Lee Morgan and saxophonist Wayne Shorter were two of the leading lights of the 1960s har...
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 58:59
A salute to hardbop pianist Freddie Redd, featuring recordings he made with artists such as Jackie McLean and Tina Brooks.
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 59:05
Jazz scholar and Lester Young box-set annotator Loren Schoenberg joins us as we look at the music the saxophonist made in the years following a dif...
- Added: Apr 20, 2017
- Length: 59:00
Davu Seru is the current Studio Z composer in Residence. Among his goals is combining west African-based traditions such as drumming and the blues...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Meet some of the greatest back-up singers! It may be only Twenty Feet from Stardom but director Morgan Neville shows us just how long that walk can...
- Added: Jan 26, 2017
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 3
Bowman Wright on the transformative power of theater and his two portrayals of MLK.
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 27:08
The Earl Mosley Institute of the Arts uses dance to create a community of young men.
Bought by KZUM, KISA Digital Studios, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNJR, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Sep 13, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 5
