PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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"The man for whom Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone." That is how Coleman Hawkins was introduced at the 1963 Newport Jazz Festival. This program i...
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- Added: Mar 17, 2022
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
The decade that became known as “The Jazz Age” consisted of a lot more than the music. The youth became style conscious thanks in large part to pop...
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- Added: Feb 06, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Musicians were known to violate their recordings contracts fairly regularly in the 1920s. It’s the old story that the talent was underpaid. So, it ...
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- Added: Sep 27, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
As The Jazz Age roared to like in the 1920s so did the suffragette movement. In 1918 women were granted voting rights, and they took that to mean i...
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- Added: Feb 13, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Fifty years ago the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors began publishing the Journal devoted to early jazz.
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- Added: Nov 08, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Jack Teagarden and Pee Wee Russell: They each approached their music very differently. At the same time, that’s what made them similar.
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- Added: May 29, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
To whom do we give the title, "Origin of the Blues"? No one truly knows, but there a several geographical locations that have dibs. Does it matter?
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 20, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Try to arrive at a definitive, all-inclusive understanding of jazz, and you’ll be mistaken. After all, the real beauty of the music is that it cann...
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- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Billie Holiday once said, "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." In a recent Views and Brews f...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and WJSU
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Mark Winne, food activist and author of “Closing the Food Gap” and “ “Food Rebels, Guerrill...
- Added: Feb 27, 2012
- Length: 28:00
Sir Patrick Moore talks about his life in astronomy, life on Mars, and playing music with Einstein.
- Added: Feb 19, 2008
- Length: :18
Just before Nelson Mandela's release from prison, John Hockenberry speaks with South African musician Johnny Clegg and political comedian Jimmy Tin...
- Added: Feb 28, 2007
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 6
- Added: Jun 20, 2006
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 1
