PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
Connie’s Hot Chocolates opened at the Hudson Theater, 44th Street east of Broadway, on June 20, 1929. It was a slice of Harlem nightlife.
- Added: Mar 13, 2014
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 2
She billed herself as “The Queen of the Blues.” But, technically, she wasn’t a blues singer.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 12, 2014
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Duke Ellington called his music "American Music" rather than jazz, and described those who impressed him as "beyond category. "He is widely conside...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Once you hear the music of Sam Wooding and his Chocolate Dandies you, too, will be curious why his work is not as familiar to connoisseurs of early...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 23, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Pioneering blues and jazz guitarist Lonnie Johnson began playing professionally in New Orleans in 1917. He toured Europe with Marion Cook’s Souther...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 26, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
When washboard was King. Well, that may be a stretch, but the popularity of that musical instrument, when it was used as such, reached a height in...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 24, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
This program is devoted to those pioneers of jazz piano from Scott Joplin to Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 07, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
The music of american legend James Hubert "Eubie" Blake. Pianist, composer, vocalist, and a man who could reinvent himself as times demanded.
- Added: Feb 13, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 4
Bandleader Andy Kirk gave up his post office carrier in 1925 to try his hand in music. He showed talent on the saxophone and tuba, but it evolved t...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
