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WorldMix with Rupert Palmer
From: Rupert Palmer
Series: WorldMix
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This week we feature new music from East and West Africa, latest soul from Miruga as well as dusting off two great classics from Bryan Ferry.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sonny Turner: The Lesson in Life You Learn
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Sonny Turner, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Bill...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 01:19
Rhythm Atlas 139 2020-06-13 Black Voices of Protest from Around the World
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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June is African-American Music Appreciation Month - originally proclaimed as Black Music Month by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. We’ll expand on t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Leaders
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Armstrong
Knowledge, creativity, charisma, and endless energy are just a few qualities that make a good musical leader. If the leader can also arrange and co...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
WoodSongs 864: Bobby Rush and Dallahan
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Blues man Bobby Rush!
On this week's ENCORE broadcast of WoodSongs 864, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes blues legend Bobby Rush plus award winning band from Scotla...

Bought by KENW, KHNS, KKRN, WETS, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Bubber & Cootie
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bubber Miley, left
They’re best remembered for their mastery of the muted trumpet. Bubber Miley and Cootie Williams were standout musicians who performed with the Duk...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sizzling Sissle
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Noble Sissle
Lyricist, composer, vocalist and bandleader Noble Sissle had a very successful 60-year career in jazz and musical theater. He’s best know as the mu...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piano & Jug
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Clarence Williams
instrument was the jug. Clarence Williams was a professional, yet he thoroughly enjoyed a relaxed performing style. Add in a little hokum, and the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Turning Point
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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Both Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong entered the professional music scene in the early 1920s. Both favored traditional jazz with its roots in New O...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 18, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Russell's Crew
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: J.C. Higginbotham
Pianist and bandleader Luis Russell happened to have one of the best bands in the Big Apple by the latter 1920s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 06, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Seldom Heard Fats
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Thomas "Fats" Waller
One of the most flamboyant, enigmatic, larger than life personalities in early jazz is Thomas “Fats” Waller: a primary exponent of Stride piano.

Bought by KMUW and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sarah M. Greer Celebrates Her Compositions and Improv at This Sunday’s CD Release Party
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Sarah M. Greer, Credit: Brena Greer
A decade ago, Sarah M Greer had just about enough with her job. So she quit, and enrolled in music school to study vocal performance. Now she is a ...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
This Week in Blues History #41 - January 6-12
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with Little Walter, “Honeyboy” Edwards, Muddy Waters, and J....

  • Added: Jul 14, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #37 - December 9-15
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time we profile Ruth Brown, one of the biggest R&B singers of the 1950s, who first hit the top of the Billboard charts, this week in 1950.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #33 - November 11-17
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time we profile The Howlin’ Wolf, who made his debut on the Billboard R&B charts in 1951.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #32 - November 4-10
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time we profile Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who first recorded with an electric guitar, this week in 1941.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #31 - October 28-November 3
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time we profile Professor Longhair, who first recorded a beloved Mardi Gras classic, this week in 1949.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
Schubert Quintet and Imani Winds #18-15
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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The Pacifica Quartet play the Quintet in C by Schubert and Imani Winds play a modern piece based on Duke Ellington

Bought by WCNY, WNIJ, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
This Week in Blues History #28 - October 7-13
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time, we profile Henry Thomas, whose two dozen recordings for Vocalion, made in the late 1920s, hark back to a time before the blues.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #26 - September 23-29
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time, we profile harmonica ace Junior Wells — who was in the studio laying down some classic tracks for Delmark Records, this week in 1965.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #24 - September 9-15
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time, we profile Little Richard and Specialty Records owner Art Rupe, who, at first anyway, wasn’t too impressed by Little Richard.

  • Added: Apr 06, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #21 - August 19-25
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time, we profile blues piano mystery man, Black Bob — who was in the studio this week with Memphis Minnie, in 1935.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
The Wizards
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Chicago Hottentots
Traditional jazz began its road to sophistication in the mid 1920s with artists like Louie Armstrong, Albert Nicholas, Richard M. Jones, Johnny Dod...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Legendary Clarinetists
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy Noone
This program visits Chicago's South Side in the latter 1920s to hear three of the leading proponents of jazz clarinet.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hour 3: New Orleans Diaspora - Jelly Roll Morton & Sidney Bechet
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In this hour, we’ll explore the music of two more giants of the New Orleans diaspora, pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton, who left Louisiana in...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WCNY, KMUN, WMOT, KRPS and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 23