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A deep look inside the process of music discovery.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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Our age-old response to this life on earth: yours, theirs, all of ours.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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A deeper look inside the art of using fewer words to say more.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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A look at the nature of performance, and its effect on performer and audience alike.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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A celebration of bands, in story and song.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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https://indianapublicmedia.org/porchlight/note-to-self.php

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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The hours around dawn, reflected upon in story and song.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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One of the greats of early rock 'n' roll, remembered in story and song.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
Caption: Agustin Barrios and as Nitsuga Mangoré
In honor of the 139th anniversary of his birth, this week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a tribute to singularly extraordinary Parag...

Bought by WMRA, WKMS, WNMU-FM, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KSJE and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 54
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Caption: Scott Joplin
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is a celebration of music by American composers, Copland, John Philips Sousa, and more, and features...

Bought by Ohm Radio , WPVM 103.7, KMUN, WUAL, WRTI and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 60
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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
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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
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Matt Mullins and the Bringdowns come from Beckley, West Virginia with howling harmonicas, a raw blues guitar, and bone chilling vocals. Matt Mull...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:12
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Color of Change board chair Heather McGhee talks with Laura about her New York Times best-selling book, The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone a...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3