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Hour 59: Jazz and Bossa Nova
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Fueled by the 1959 international release of the movie Black Orpheus and through reports from US jazz players returning from South American tours, t...

Bought by KENW, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KMUN, KRPS, WCNY and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 20
Hour 58: Still Swinging
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Duke Ellington and Benny Carter, whose careers stretched back to the 1920s, continued to be vital musical presences in the 1960s. In this hour we w...

Bought by WCNY, KENW, KZUM, KMUN, KRPS and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 57: Jazz Singers in the 1960s
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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The 1960s featured many recordings by highly musical singers in the company of great jazz instrumentalists. In this hour of Jazz at 100, we will su...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 56: Bebop Lives
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Bebop was a revolutionary new music in the late 1930s, dominated jazz in the 1940s, and powerfully influenced all jazz that followed. By the 1960s ...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 19
Hour 55: The Modern Jazz Quartet in the 1960s
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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As the Modern Jazz Quartet, members of which were once Dizzy Gillespie’s rhythm section in the 1940s, moved into the 1960s, they continued to swing...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 53: The Piano Trios – Erroll Garner, Ahmad Jamal, & Bill Evans
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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While there were influential piano trios in the 1940s (Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Lennie Tristano, or Nat King Cole, for example), the format rea...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 38:10
  • Purchases: 21
Jazz at 100 Hour 52: Miles Davis & the First Great Quintet (Sextet)
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Miles Davis was more than a trumpet player, composer and taste-maker - he led some of the greatest bands in the history of jazz. In this hour, we w...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 51: The Alto After Bird
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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When Charlie Parker died at 34 in 1955, it was as if an ancient tree fell in the forest with the resulting sunlight promoting the growth of numerou...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 50: Vocalese
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Arising out of bebop vocals, a number of singers in the 1950s began to replicate famous instrumental solos with the human voice. The practice, init...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 49: Jazz Singers in the 1950s
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Many jazz singers of the 1950s continued the tradition of recording with major instrumentalists who were given the space to improvise, feeding off ...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 19
Hour 46: The Songbooks
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Songs from what came to be known as the Great American Songbook, have been part of jazz perhaps since The Original Dixieland Jazz Band began record...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 23
Hour 45: Norman Granz and Verve Records
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In July 2, 1944, Norman Granz, a jazz fan and small-time LA promoter staged a concert in the Philharmonic Auditorium with $300 of borrowed money. H...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 21
Jazz at 100 Hour 43: Monk and Friends: Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols, & Elmo Hope in the 1950s
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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The 1950s were a very productive decade for Thelonious Monk, perhaps his most productive as a composer. During the fifties his reputation and impac...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 20
Hour 42: The Chicago Sound
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Because it acted as a safe harbor for the New Orleans diaspora of the teens and twenties, Chicago played a key role in early jazz. By the 1950s, mu...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 22
Jazz at 100 Hour 41: The Lyricists - Benny Golson, Gigi Gryce, Art Farmer
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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“Musicians of a gentler, more lyrical bent … found in hard bop a more congenial climate than bebop had offered: for instance, trumpeter Art Farmer,...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 23
Hour 40: Sons of The Jazz Messengers
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In 1956, with Horace Silver’s departure, Art Blakey inherited the Jazz Messengers. Over the next five years, the Jazz Messengers took part in recor...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 23
Hour 37: Cool - Four Brothers After Woody Herman
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Bandleader Woody Herman created a distinctive sound around The Four Brothers - the three tenor plus baritone sax front line of Stan Getz, Zoot Sims...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 36: Bebop Pioneers in the 1950s
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Bebop had its roots in the big bands of the late 1930s and was nurtured in jam sessions during the war and the musician’s strike of the 1940s. By 1...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 35: Big Bands of the 1950s
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Tenorist Paul Gonzalvez electrified the crowd with 27 blues choruses on "Diminuendo in Blue and Crescendo in Blue" with Duke Ellington at Newport 1...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 34: The Birth of the Cool
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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The torrid pace of bebop improvisations reached a point in the late 1940s that prompted a musical reconsideration and Miles Davis was there at the ...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 33: Proto-Cool – Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Pianist Lennie Tristano was a very visible participant in the modern jazz innovations of the mid-1940s through the early 1950s, winning polls and p...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 32: Dixieland Revival - A Sense of History
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In the 1940’s, some twenty-five to thirty years into the history of recorded jazz, the sometimes violent reaction against the bebop revolution caus...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 31: My Brainwaves in His Head, and His in Mine - Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Duke Ellington was the well-spring that flowed through many decades of jazz. In 1938, Ellington found his soul-mate in composer/arranger Billy Stra...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 29: Tadd Dameron – Fats Navarro – Sonny Stitt – JJ Johnson
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In the past several hours of Jazz at 100, we have featured the music of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, WCNY, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
The Emergence of Linda Ronstadt (Newscast Friendly Cuts)
From: Paul Ingles
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The remarkable and varied performing career of Linda Ronstadt is explored by a panel of her friends, music writers, musicians and fans. Plus archiv...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:47:57
  • Purchases: 2