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Caption: Jonatha Brooke and Lin Arons, Credit: Lin Knott
It began when Singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke started working with cellist Rebecca Arons. Then came an arranger and a host of others, and then a w...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: WBAI Staff, Credit: 1960s
In honor of radio pioneers Larry Josephson, Steve Post and Bob Fass, a look back at the early days of free form radio at Pacifica and WBAI in New Y...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:39
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: J.C. Sanford, Credit: Andrea Canter
As the name implies, The Imminent Standards play standards. But of course they put their own twists on the tunes. Trombonist JC Sanford is the grou...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: J.C. Sanford, Credit: Andrea Canter
As the name implies, The Imminent Standards play standards. But of course they put their own twists on the tunes. Catch the Imminent Standards Satu...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Augmeanted, Credit: John Stewart
Mary Overlie and Geoffrey Taylor have different types of musical backgrounds, but their family connection brings them together. Theirs is a mix of ...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Red Planet, Credit: Nick Lethert
Red Planet is composed of three great improvisers, drummer Jay Epstein, bassist Chris Bates and electric guitarist Dean Magraw. In a conversation a...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Red Planet, Credit: Nick Lethert
Red Planet is composed of three great improvisers, drummer Jay Epstein, bassist Chris Bates and electric guitarist Dean Magraw. The Trio performs a...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo 2022, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Wain McFarlane is a transcendent Minnesota musician. Wain figured prominently is the famed Ipso Facto, and he’s still touring widely with his eclec...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: 2022 Crooner's Poster, Credit: Linda Koutsky
Pop Wagner and Charlie Maguire are folk singers inspired by Woody Guthrie, the prolific songwriter who chronicled the Great Depression and the Dust...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Captain Gravitone CD cover art, Credit: Al Fack
There are many who compose original music, but little of it breaks through to audiences. The Minnesota Original Music Festival means to change all ...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
One of Jeff Perry’s specialties is giving Jazz spins to pop music. Audiences get a big kick out of both the excellence of Jeff’s group, and also fi...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
One of Jeff Perry’s specialties is giving Jazz spins to pop music. Audiences get a big kick out of both the excellence of Jeff’s group, and also fi...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Honeybutter, Credit:  Nic Lafrance
Honeybutter is a Twin Cities folk-jazz-bossa-nova-pop band. It’s eclectic because its members, Clara Wicklund, Andreas Fenner and Zak Khan come fro...

  • Added: May 30, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Honeybutter, Credit:  Nic Lafrance
Honeybutter is a Twin Cities folk-jazz-bossa-nova-pop band. It’s eclectic because its members, Clara Wicklund, Andreas Fenner and Zak Khan come fro...

  • Added: May 30, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo 2022
Out of the Box Opera Company Does Immersive Opera. This is opera staged in all kinds of spaces people congregate. It has done Verdi’s La Traviata i...

  • Added: May 21, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo 2022
Verdi’s La Traviata will be performed at the Canopy Hotel in Minneapolis Fri-Sunday May 27 through 29. But it’s not set on a typical opera stage, b...

  • Added: May 21, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
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
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Jazz meets Hip-Hop, Jazz meets House music, Jazz meets Brazil, too!

Bought by RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRPS, KRSC, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: American Roots Review , Credit: Raquel Mendez
The American Roots Revue next performance at…..Larry Long told Phil Nusbaum that The American Roots Revue grew from a project done with J.D. Steele...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
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Join Montana Public Radio's Tom Berich for a musical journey around the world!

Bought by KAMU, KMXT, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:33
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Robb Henry, Credit: Paul Lundgren
Veteran Twin Cities guitarist Robb Henry used the time during the Covid pandemic to both dig into his archives and create some new lines. The resul...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
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Internal medicine physician Natasha Spottiswoode reflects on her flying days from Oxford while teaching a green intern how to recognize whether pat...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 35:42
Caption: Chris Castino, Credit: David Jackson
Chris Castino is one of those rare musicians who thrives in multiple musical styles. In his case, the styles are rock and bluegrass. In a conversat...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Chris Castino by David Jackson, Credit: David Jackson
Chris Castino is one of those rare musicians who thrives in multiple styles. In his case, the styles are rock and bluegrass. Chris leads Chicken Wi...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Wait, I’m Not the Crazy One! Sarah Longwell, Conservative Watchdog of Republican Sanity
Sarah Longwell on Republican accountability post-Trump, in conversation with creator/host and lifelong Independent Robert Pease, and co-host and Ex...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:20