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Reeds-A-Plenty
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Omer Simeon
As jazz evolved over its first decade, the clarinet was the primary wind-instrument. But, when the music reached Chicago, the saxophone, more speci...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bringing a Harlem Renaissance Playwright to the Stage
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Timothy Johnson
Director Timothy Johnson talks about bringing the brilliant work of Harlem Renaissance playwright Eulalie Spence to the stage.

Bought by WDCB, WSLR, RADIOLEX, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 8
The Big Myth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Naomi Oreskes
The Chicago school of economics lead to the phrase, there’s magic in the market. But, that magic, for many of those who invest, means an unrestrict...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Southern Hospitality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s jazz band
Southern Hospitality: The term conjures up wonderful images. Primary on the list is it’s the birthplace of jazz. The program is devoted to the mus...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Walk the Walk: How Three Police Chiefs Defied the Odds and Changed Cop Culture
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Walk the Walk
Policy change policing is critically important. But to fix policing, we need to change the culture. The culture surrounding law enforcement. The va...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson reflects on her first year as Chair of National Endowment for the Arts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson
Chair Maria Rosario Jackson looks back at her first year leading the Arts Endowment and shares her ideas, plans, and initiatives for the year ahead.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WDCB, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
Bix & the Gang
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Piece image
Although Bix Beiderbecke’s career spanned less than a decade, his influence on future cornetists lasted generations. What is not surprising is the ...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Drawing Deportation
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Silvia Rodriguez Vega
Family separation. Deportation. Border crossing deaths. Profiling. Limited access to resources such as quality education and healthcare. All of the...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Nicole Fleetwood discusses "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration"
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dr. Nicole Fleetwood, Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Art historian, curator, and 2021 MacArthur Fellow, Dr Fleetwood discusses the profound significance of the art created by incarcerated people.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Spokane Public Radio, WMPG, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Red by Red
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Henry Allen
Two popular musicians who added to the legacy of jazz through their colorful musical personalities. Henry “Red” and Loring “Red” Nichols. Vastly di...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
Preparing for War
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Brad Onishi
The riot at the US Capitol in January 2021 was not a blip or an aberration. In the thinking of Dr. Bradley Onishi and others, it was the logical ou...

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  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Small Labels
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Piece image
As the decades of the 1920 began, so did a plethora of brand-new small label recording studios. They, indeed, grabbed the attention of jazz musicia...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Woman's Life is a Human Life
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Felicia Kornbluh
Some now refer to a post-Roe reality. What they’re saying is the battle for reproductive rights has shifted back to individual states. Déjà vu. Al...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Foley Guy, A Romance
From: Johanna Beale Keller
Caption: The Foley Guy, A Romance
WINNER of the 2023 Atlanta Fringe Audio Critics' Choice Award, as well as Best Writing, Best Mixing & Most Creative! The judges said "I LOVED THE H...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 19:33
The Pugilist
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy McPartland
When Cornetist Jimmy McPartland was growing up in west side Chicago, He was constantly finding he was at odds with the law. He says, if it wasn’t f...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Author Kevin Wilson's talks about his funny and moving novel Nothing to See Here
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kevin Wilson, Credit: Leigh Anne Crouch
Author of the NEA Big Read title Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson discusses the serious issues at the heart of this outrageous (and outrageously fu...

Bought by KVNF, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 7
Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ma Rainey
Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya is the title of a 1920s song written by Ma Rainey. It is also a book by Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro that tells stories from t...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Quoting in Rhythm
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Zutty Singleton
One way to truly enjoy the earliest days of jazz is to hear directly from the musicians themselves. Only they can tell the story as it really was.

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lost Chords part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bunny Berigan
The first glimmer that there was something new in the world of music became apparent in the deep south. It was long before Louis Armstrong and Bix ...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Christmas with the Club
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Christmas Wish
Despite being one hundred years old, this is a very similar scene to what we experience today. In her research, author Betty Owens discovered that ...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
End Kids Cancer
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frank Kalman w/daughter Cali
Nearly 30-years ago the Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children released a new study. Not surprising, they found an abundance ...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lost Chords part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Adrian Rollini
In the early 1990s, jazz trumpet Richard Sudhalter decided he needed to correct, what he perceived as a historical error: that the White jazz music...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Jazz Dance
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Dance
In the 1920s, dozens of new dances were introduced to a dance hungry public. From America to Europe, people were feeling the rhythm in their feet.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Progress Illusion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jon D. Erickson
It’s a fairytale we constantly hear. Growth always leads to prosperity. Logically that should mean that we have endless resources. In that case, wh...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
New Orleans part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Freddie Keppard
The early Crescent City cornets set the standard for the decade of the 1920s. This program is a followup recognizing those creative artists who gen...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1

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