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NL 23-08: Here Comes The Sun: Nina Simone On RCA, 2/13/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In late 1966 the fiercely individualistic singer and pianist Nina Simone signed with RCA Records and continued her genre-bending explorations of ja...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
CRUISIN' WITH SMOKEY ROBINSON: An Appreciation (Optional Hour #2)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Smokey Robinson & Stevie Wonder perform at the 2023 Grammy Awards
Hour 2 of CRUISIN’ WITH SMOKEY ROBINSON: AN APPRECIATION is hosted by music specials producer Paul Ingles and features a more music intensive colle...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WUTC, North State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, KUHF and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
CRUISIN' WITH SMOKEY ROBINSON: An Appreciation
From: Paul Ingles
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CRUISIN’ WITH SMOKEY ROBINSON: AN APPRECIATION is hosted by music specials producer Paul Ingles who is joined by three top music writers and educat...

Bought by WJCT, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WUTC, Prairie Public, KSJE and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
NL 23-06: Black Composers In Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis, 1959, 1/30/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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The first in a recurring series of shows explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Again...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Black Composers in Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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This hour explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Against Tomorrow, released the same ...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Director's Cut: Best of WGR 2022 (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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This year, we’re bringing you some of our favorite segments from 2022.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRGY, Royalton Community Radio, and KCHW


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Director's Cut: Best of WGR 2022 (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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This year, we’re bringing you some of our favorite segments from 2022.

Bought by KEDT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMUU-LP, WRGY, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Director's Cut: Best of WGR 2022 (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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This year, we’re bringing you some of our favorite segments from 2022.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WLPR , WFHB, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Director's Cut: Best of WGR 2022 (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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This year, we’re bringing you some of our favorite segments from 2022.

Bought by WLPR , KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
NL 23-03: Dear Martin, P.S.: More Jazz Tributes To Martin Luther King Jr., 1/9/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz recordings in honor of the civil-rights leader made by James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and others.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
A Lesson in Hill Country Blues with Cedric Burnside
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Cedric Burnside, Credit: Stephen Payne
Hill Country Blues Musician, Songwriter and 2021 National Heritage Fellow Cedric Burnside talks about bringing his musical roots to the 21st century.

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


  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 8
Musical Legacies (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A.D. Carson’s new album, “iv: talking with ghosts,” was written under the heaviness of covid lockdown, the deaths of close friends and family, and ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and KCHW


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Musical Legacies (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A.D. Carson’s new album, “iv: talking with ghosts,” was written under the heaviness of covid lockdown, the deaths of close friends and family, and ...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WUTC, WFHB, KMUN, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Musical Legacies (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A.D. Carson’s new album, “iv: talking with ghosts,” was written under the heaviness of covid lockdown, the deaths of close friends and family, and ...

Bought by WTJU, WUTC, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Musical Legacies (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A.D. Carson’s new album, “iv: talking with ghosts,” was written under the heaviness of covid lockdown, the deaths of close friends and family, and ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Kevin Washington and Ra Spirit Combine Spirituality with Diasporic Outlook
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: jazz88 logo 2022, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Kevin Washington views himself as an artist in the tradition of Pharaoh Sanders and john and Alice Coltrane, of spirituality and healing. When Kevi...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Kevin Washington and Ra Spirit Combine Spirituality with Diasporic Outlook at Walker West Performance
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: jazz88 logo 2022, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Kevin Washington views himself as an artist in the tradition of Pharaoh Sanders and john and Alice Coltrane, of spirituality and healing. Kevin lea...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
NL 22-39: Trane '62: John Coltrane's Classic Quartet Begins, 9/19/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Recordings that saxophonist John Coltrane made with Duke Ellington, Eric Dolphy, and the rhythm section of McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jo...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
Black, Brown and Beige - Duke Ellington’s Historic Jazz Symphony
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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In 1943, Duke Ellington debuted a landmark 43-minute musical portrayal of the African-American experience at Carnegie Hall. We'll hear music from i...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KMUW, WVIA, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 20
NL 22-36: Duke Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige, 8/29/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In January 1943, bandleader and composer Duke Ellington took his orchestra into Carnegie Hall for the first time and chose to make his debut with a...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
HBCU Renaissance (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by KWIT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KCHW and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
HBCU Renaissance (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by WUTC, WRKF, Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
HBCU Renaissance (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WGBH Radio Boston, RadioStPete Florida, WLPR , KECG and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 37
HBCU Renaissance (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by WLPR , KUOW, KQED, WITF, KWMU St. Louis and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 11
The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Throughout jazz history the harp has rarely been heard as a soloing or primary instrument, but in the 1950s and 60s Dorothy Ashby, a musician out o...

Bought by WJCT, KRCU Public Radio, WVTF, KLCC, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6