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A salute to talk-show host and jazz advocate Steve Allen, who also played piano and wrote numerous songs such as “This Could Be the Start of Someth...
- Added: Jun 20, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Singer Thelma Carpenter’s career extended from the swing era to The Wiz and The Cosby Show. We’ll hear her with Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Coleman ...
- Added: Jun 15, 2024
- Length: 59:04
Renaissance and Baroque weddings of the rich and famous were accompanied by entire orchestras. Horse ballet, mock naval-battles, operas, sculptures...
- Added: Jun 11, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Local guitarist and singer/songwriter Paul Benjaman releases his latest record, "My Bad Side, Wants a Good Time." Folk Salad has Paul into the stud...
- Added: Jun 04, 2024
- Length: 58:59
Mitch McCabe talks defying stereotypes, suspending judgement, and interviewing people who are packing serious weapons.
- Added: Jun 02, 2024
- Length: 13:47
Theda Hammel and John Early talk weird stakes, a filmable crisis, and being presumptuous.
- Added: Jun 01, 2024
- Length: 14:03
This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome back Polish vocalist and composer Grazyna Auguscik with her stellar group, celebrating Grazyna’s newest r...
- Added: May 28, 2024
- Length: 57:01
- Purchases: 2
This airing of Folk Salad Celebrates Mother's Day in all it's many facets from those paying loving tribute to those who grew up absent a mother to ...
- Added: May 21, 2024
- Length: 58:59
This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome noted Polish vocalist and composer Grazyna Auguscik with a stellar group, celebrating Grazyna’s newest re...
- Added: May 21, 2024
- Length: 57:01
- Purchases: 2
A tribute to the pianist featuring his recordings with Stan Getz, Blue Mitchell, Miles Davis, and as a leader in the 1960s.
- Added: May 21, 2024
- Length: 59:02
Trumper Fats Navarro was one of the leading lights of the emerging 1940s bebop movement before dying at the age of 26. We’ll hear some of the most ...
- Added: May 21, 2024
- Length: 59:01
Exploring the brief but profound musical relationship between trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Bill Evans that resulted in the landmark album Kind...
- Added: May 21, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Join us this week on Harmonia as we explore how generations of musicians adapted existing music for their instruments through the art of intabulati...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 59:02
In the spring of 1945 Duke Ellington undertook a weekly Saturday broadcast to support the war-bond drive. We’ll hear music from these programs as ...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 59:02
This week on Harmonia, we're collecting music named after specific people. These eponymous tunes have namesakes ranging from tragic to notorious a...
- Added: May 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Put on a sweater, because this week on Harmonia, we’re touring the Nordic countries. Often left out of the discussion when it comes to early music,...
- Added: May 16, 2024
- Length: 58:59
This airing of Folk Salad features some new and older music that we have been digging into. Artists like Nicolette and the Nobodies, Cody Jinks, K...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 58:59
Part II of coming back to Oklahoma on Folk Salad. We will play artists from Jimmy Markham to Charlie Chirstian. Select tunes from Tommy Crook, Je...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 58:59
In the late 1970s the Columbia label was home to an array of talented jazz musicians, including Woody Shaw, Arthur Blythe, Dexter Gordon, and Weath...
- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: 59:04
The rise of big bands in the 1930s and 40s played a key role in the popularization of jazz, and provided a soundtrack for Americans navigating a ch...
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- Added: May 06, 2024
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
In the early 1970s trumpeter Freddie Hubbard made a series of records for the CTI label that combined hardbop, funk, modality, and 70s groove.
- Added: May 04, 2024
- Length: 59:01
Though Nat King Cole is remembered today for his popular vocal recordings, this show celebrates his unsung prowess as a modernistic pianist.
- Added: Apr 25, 2024
- Length: 59:01
When Christian IV of Denmark visited his brother-in-law James Stuart in England, they threw some raucous, wild parties, so not surprisingly King Ch...
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
A centennial tribute to the composer focusing on the jazzy music that he wrote for films and TV shows such as Touch Of Evil and Peter Gunn.
- Added: Apr 14, 2024
- Length: 59:04
Tonight on Folk Salad we celebrate April Fools, by featuring all songs about "Fools." You would be surprised how many songs that have been written...
- Added: Apr 10, 2024
- Length: 58:59
