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Becoming Jazz Violinist Regina Carter
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Regina Carter, Credit: Bob Travis; (CC-BY-2.0)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: First of a two-part podcast with violinist and NEA Jazz Master Regina Carter

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering Angela Lansbury
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Young Angela
Angela Lansbury in her own words with music from her entire career from Gaslight through Murder She Wrote--All Mixed Up

  • Added: Oct 16, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:06
The "Supreme" All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Message From RBG
A Supreme Court mashup highlighting the continuing struggle for Woman's Rights with music and history colliding once again--Statements on Roe versu...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:56
  • Purchases: 1
Songbirds
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ma Rainey
Featuring those pioneering women of the 1920s who put voice to jazz, from Ma Rainey to Mae West.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Meet Singer and NEA Jazz Master Cassandra Wilson!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Cassandra Wilson, Credit: Mark Seliger
Meet Singer, Songwriter, Musician, and 2022 NEA Jazz Master Cassandra Wilson and hear about her long and rich singing career in this tuneful podcast.

Bought by KZUM, Spokane Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Meet 2021 NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Terri Lyne Carrington, Credit: Delphine Diallo
Virtuoso drummer and 2021 NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington talks about career and her advocacy for “jazz without patriarchy.”

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, New England Public Media, and KZUM


  • Added: Aug 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Shortcut Through 2017
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Goodbye Village Voice
A look back at the last twelve months, a retrospective of a truly transitional year with a disturbing loss of morals, constitution values and major...

Bought by 'The Sea', Indie3 Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KDUR, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:22
  • Purchases: 13
Jim
From: Josephine Halbert
Caption: Jim, A radio play by Josephine Halbert, Credit: original drawing by Josephine Halbert
The story of a 1960s transatlantic 'rock and roll' romance, created for radio. Laura remembers her love affair with Jim, a well known American rock...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2017
  • Length: 01:05:40
Belles of Broadway: A Women's History Month Special
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jane Green
This is a sampling of the women who performed on Broadway and recorded studio sessions in the 1920s.

Bought by WJCT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WNMU-FM, WGTE Public Media, WCPN and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9
Aggie Barkhouse "Don't Waste the Music"
From: Will Heron
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NOTE: The :48 intro CAN be removed without prior permission. Ninety-year-old Nova Scotian, Aggie Barkhouse, reminisces about the hard life of the...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
That's All
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Annette Hanshaw
She was known as “The Personality Girl,” with a singing style that crossed over between sweet and hot jazz-influenced presentations. Annette Hansha...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Sherrie Maricle
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sherrie Maricle and Diva, Credit: Shaun Mader
Sherrie Maricle has played with Jazz legends, leads an all-woman big band, and forges new roads for woman in jazz.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
Country Fried Rock Interviews The Whiskey Gentry
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Album Cover
Lauren Staley fronts The Whiskey Gentry, a roots band from Atlanta that draws heavily from bluegrass and traditional country storytelling. With a ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, WSLR, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Gospel Roots of Rock and Roll
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe became the first superstar of gospel music and was an early influence on Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and ...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KMUN, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 8
The Belles of the Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Alberta Hunter
The four blues vocalists in this hour are not well known. That certainly doesn’t mean they aren’t worthy of praise and recognition: Alberta Hunter...

Bought by KMUW, KBBI Alaska, WMMT, WJSU, and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 5
05 Lubliner Nign
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
At the Sabbath table on a Friday evening, the Khasidim of Eastern Europe sang tish nigunim, “table songs” praising God . . . seeking to get closer ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:16
04 Lustig Zayn
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
Sometimes, klezmer songs borrowed from popular folk melodies. “Lustig Zayn”, also known as “My Yofes” came from Polish peasants. But the more kle...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:24
03 Simkes Hanefesh
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This is a more spiritual tune. In 18th Century Poland, the Jewish mystic philosophy of Khasidism was born. The Khasidim believed that singing song...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:53
02 Sofia's Song
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
In the audio drama “The Witches of Lublin,” Sofia is a teenaged girl in love – all that matters to her is that the object of her affection shares h...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:44
01 Shtayn Gart's
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This lively dance is a bulgar. It is exactly the sort of music one would hear at one of the market fairs held in Easter Europe during the late 1700...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 09:55
Violinist Anna Schaad's Dream Within a Dream
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Violinist Anna Schaad’s music is steeped in fantasy and inspired by her Navy pilot husband. Though heavily Celtic influenced, she takes an electro...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Rena Jones: The diva of ambient cello
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Rena Jones, Credit: John Diliberto
There's a lot of looping, electronic cellists out there, but Rena Jones is one of the few who is also orchestrating her own electronica backings, c...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Donna De Lory's sacred chants and songs
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Donna De Lory
Donna De Lory turns Hindi chants into spiritual pop songs. A back-up singer for Madonna and a gifted singer-songwriter in her own right, Donna De ...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
Inbar Bakal's Hebrew hymns on electronic wings
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Israeli singer Inbar Bakal
Inbar Bakal is an Israeli singer born of Yemeni and Iraqi parents. Her music, composed with producer Carmen Rizzo (Seal, Alanis Morrisette), is a ...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
Wendy & Lisa: Former Prince divas become heroic composers
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman came to renown in Prince's 1980s band, The Revolution, helping him compose the music of albums like Purple Rain. But...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1