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  • Added: Jun 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: King Oliver
Pioneering trumpet artist of New Orleans jazz, mentor to Louis Armstrong, inspiration for the Harmon trumpet mute still used today, bandleader and ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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SHOW 910 (Air Dates: June 6 - 12, 2022) Our guest this week on Art of the Song is award-winning folksinger DARIA. For the last two decades, she has...

Bought by KUGS Bellingham, Wash., GCR (Global Community Radio), KGLP, KRZA, WHRV and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Caption: After Yang 1
JoAnne Ling - Set Decorator - Norman, The Book of Henry, Freeheld, Invasion, After Yang

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  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Nightclubs of Chicago
Chicago became the hotbed of jazz in the early 1920s By the early 1930s, several major big bands took up residence in the popular clubs like the Gr...

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  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John McEuen returns to the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, it's a guitar summit as folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes the string wizard and founding member of the N...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KDLG, KZUM, KTRL, KENW and more


  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
Caption: Southside Aces, Credit: Amy Wightkin
Performing New Orleans jazz means playing from a catalog of thousands of songs spanning at least a hundred years. But the new Southside Aces record...

  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Southside Aces, Credit: Amy Wightkin
The Southside Aces celebrates its new CD June 3 at the Dakota in Minneapolis. Performing New Orleans jazz means playing from a catalog of thousands...

  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
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SHOW 909 (Air Dates: May 30 - June 5, 2022) On this episode of Art of the Song we talk with Noel Paul Stookey, founding member of the 1960s folk gr...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KGLP, KRZA, WHRV, KHEN-LP and more


  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Caption: EEAAO1
Brent Kiser - Sound Designer - Swiss Army Man, Honey Boy, Aviva, No Man Of God, and Everything Everywhere All At Once

  • Added: May 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Frankie Trumbauer
Frank Trumbauer is described as one of the most influential and important jazz saxophonists of the 1920s and '30s, including influencing the Lester...

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  • Added: May 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Lead Me Home
Gil Talmi - Film Composer - Entre Nos, The Great Hack, Jacinta, iGilbert, and Lead Me Home

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  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bud Freeman
His nickname was ‘Bud’, but pianist Marian McPartland tagged him “The Gentleman of Jazz”. Tenor saxophonist Lawrence ‘Bud’ Freeman.

Bought by WNMU-FM and KCBX


  • Added: May 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Three Songs For Benazir
Melanie Annan - Film and Television Editor - I Met A Girl, Waiting For The Miracle To Come, Despite The Gods, High Life, Cancelled, Three Songs For...

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  • Added: May 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jack Teagarden
He was a recognized master of his instrument. Weldon Leo 'Jack' Teagarden moved to New York City in 1927, and at the age of 25, began a quest that ...

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  • Added: May 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: After Antarctica
Don Bernier - Documentary Film Editor - Audrie and Daisy, The Genius Of Marian, Always In Season, Athlete A, After Antarctica

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Louis Armstrong & Sidney Bechet, Credit: Amica record label
These recordings have be come known as the “Armstrong/Bechet” sessions between 1923 and 1925. In reality composer and pianist Clarence Williams put...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Worst Person 1
Roger Rosenberg - Swedish Production Designer - Reprise, The Nile Hilton Incident, Thelma, The Worst Person in the World, The Contractor

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joe and Eddie
Giuseppe Venuti and Salvatore Massaro, best known as Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang in jazz circles, started a trend that had a large impact on the 1920...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Not A Burial
Pierre de Villiers - South African Cinematographer - The Tree, Mthunzi, This Is Not A Burial, It's A Resurrection, Mami Wata

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bunny Berigan
With his talent, he could have written his own ticket. Instead, Roland “Bunny” Berigan had a very wayward life full of bad decisions and numerous m...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Taylor Rae makes her debut on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Austin roots songwriter Taylor Rae plus Nashville based guitarist Jord...

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  • Added: Apr 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 38
Caption: Ma Rainey
Featuring those pioneering women of the 1920s who put voice to jazz, from Ma Rainey to Mae West.

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Apr 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Clarence Williams
Two very different styles, but both learned their craft in New Orleans. Clarence Williams preferred the jug and washboard style, while Luis Russell...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2