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FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL co-founder Nick Prueher talks context, unintended irony, and the video he thought might actually kill him.
Bought by KGOU
- Added: Dec 11, 2012
- Length: 22:10
- Purchases: 1
During Bix Beiderbecke’s years of recording, there were literally hundreds of sound-alike trumpeters and cornet players. They all wanted to sound l...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
A call to arms to protect business from the anti-capitalist rhetoric of the 1960s.
Bought by WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, and WRPI
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 53:29
- Purchases: 4
The camera, exposing social problems or becoming one?
Bought by WRIR, WRPI, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Nov 19, 2012
- Length: 53:29
- Purchases: 4
Trombonist Miff Mole and trumpeter Red Nichols, two highly talented jazz musicians, met in New York in the early 1920s. Together they prefected wh...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 2
American icon Cole Porter learned piano and violin at age six. He became very good at both, but he disliked the violin's harsh sound and so his ene...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Some of the earliest Blue Note recording sessions featured the trumpet of Sidney DeParis, clarinet of Edmund Hall, and piano of Art Hodes. They ca...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 58:52
Charles Dickens turns 200 this year, and two new films based on his books are in the works. But one scholar says there’s more to Dickens than his m...
- Added: May 31, 2012
- Length: 02:27
New Orleans, Chicago and New York were the primary hubs for jazz by the mid 1920s. The influences from each location enriched the result. Musicians...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: May 10, 2012
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
In this special 2-part Tin Roof Project, White House Pastry Chef Roland Mesnier tells stories of his White House years.
- Added: May 05, 2012
- Length: 57:59
Jazz Historian Albert McCarthy writes in his book, Big Band Jazz (Exeter Books, NY 1974), “When jazz and dance music began to dominate American pop...
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 58:57
A deep listen to Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell's new release, Back To The Woods. The disc is a heartfelt and upbeat tribute to blues piano pion...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Mar 08, 2012
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 1
An hour long feature on the recently released concert from Hampton, VA on 12/18/81. Show is the latest release from the Stones Archives.
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 01:00:51
- Purchases: 1
Sidney Bechet and Josephine Baker were the most recognizable expatriates on the Parisian seen in the 1920s. If you've seen the movie "Midnight in P...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 58:59
The Stones' mid-60's records are the focus with Slim Harpo on the Stones Roots segment, Cash Box Kings doing Off The Hook on the Double Shot, Ronni...
- Added: Jan 27, 2012
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 20, 2012
- Length: 59:43
- Purchases: 1
Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting December 31st, 2011. Benjamin starts the show with a variety of computer and technology...
- Added: Dec 30, 2011
- Length: 54:00
Trumpeter and flugelhorn player, composer, arranger, educator, and advocate Jimmy Owens talks about his life in jazz.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 34:25
- Purchases: 1
It’s the year 1942. The United States has just joined the war in the Pacific. On the home front, the FBI is investigating and interning Japanese-Am...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 1
West Side Story, Carousel, Man of La Mancha, Amadeus, Wicked-- You may not know Chic Silber, but you probably know at least some of the spectacles ...
- Added: Nov 15, 2010
- Length: 08:09
The ultimate value of secure attachment is apparent when your child leaves the nest.
- Added: Jun 26, 2010
- Length: 03:02
This show's main topic is the part that German immigrants played in the formation of the United States. We hear about General von Stueben who kicke...
- Added: Jun 08, 2010
- Length: 30:00
A reminiscence of Christmas on the radio in the 1940's
- Added: Nov 04, 2008
- Length: 58:31
- Purchases: 89
Diane Bahrenburg talks with her neighbor and friend, 89-year-old retired dairy farmer Roland Thompson.
- Added: Sep 01, 2006
- Length: 04:44
A centenarian painter reflects on art and the most important forms of nourishment in life.
- Added: Jun 18, 2006
- Length: 03:33
