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NEA Jazz Master Toshiko Akiyoshi

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

NEA Jazz Master Toshiko Akiyoshi on Forming a Big Band; His First Inspiration; Bud Powell; and Remembering the Old days.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more

Added: Nov 23, 2009
Length: 05:30
Purchases: 8

NEA Jazz Master Abbey Lincoln

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

NEA Jazz Master Abbey Lincoln on "Freedom Now Suite"; and Spirit and Character

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more

Added: Nov 18, 2009
Length: 01:58
Purchases: 7

NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Scott

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Scott on Vultures; Approach; and Radio.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more

Added: Nov 18, 2009
Length: 05:30
Purchases: 8

NEA Jazz Master Slide Hamilton

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

NEA Jazz Master Slide Hamilton on his Improvision; Life Experience; Connecting with the Audience; and Family Band.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more

Added: Nov 18, 2009
Length: 04:58
Purchases: 7

NEA Jazz Master Buddy DeFranco

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

NEA Jazz Master Buddy DeFranco on His First Influence; Jazz Contest; "Opus One"; Challenges of the Clarinet; Bepop; and Approaching a Performance.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more

Added: Nov 17, 2009
Length: 09:24
Purchases: 7

NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Heath

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

NEA Jazz Master on His Nickname; Musician's Personality; Ballads; and Mainstream Music.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more

Added: Nov 17, 2009
Length: 06:29
Purchases: 8

NEA Jazz Master Shirley Horn

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

NEA Jazz Master Shirley Horn describes her Musical Childhood; Her Influences; Her Collaboration with Miles Davis; and Her Collaboration with Carmen...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more

Added: Nov 17, 2009
Length: 05:56
Purchases: 9

NEA Jazz Master Frank Wess

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

NEA Jazz Master Frank Wess On His Early Life, Mother's Influence, Audience Interaction, Bassie's Leadership, and Playing with the Basie Family.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more

Added: Nov 02, 2009
Length: 06:30
Purchases: 7

NEA Jazz Master Curtis Fuller

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

NEA Jazz Master Curtis Fuller on Tales of a Nun, The Tombone, Defining his Sound, "A Moment's Notice" and European Circus.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more

Added: Nov 02, 2009
Length: 08:59
Purchases: 9

NEA Jazz Master Abbey Lincoln on Let Up

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

SHE ENDURED THE CRITICISM. IT WAS 1959. BY THIS TIME, LINCOLN HAD ALREADY RECORDED SEVERAL ALBUMS AND EVEN HAD A SINGING ROLE IN A MOVIE. PIANIS...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more

Added: Oct 30, 2009
Length: 01:29
Purchases: 8

NEA Jazz Master Abbey Lincoln on Songs & Singing

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

NEA JAZZ MASTER ABBEY LINCOLN DIDN’T PERFORM AS A SINGER UNTIL HIGH SCHOOL. SHE DIDN’T ACTUALLY ASPIRE TO PERFORM PROFESSIONALLY UNTIL SHE WAS DIS...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, Harford Community Radio, KVSC, KBEM and more

Added: Oct 30, 2009
Length: 01:29
Purchases: 6

NEA Jazz Master Artie Shaw on Biggest Hits

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

THE LATE NEA JAZZ MASTER, ARTIE SHAW COMPOSED ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN SONGS OF THE 20TH CENTURY, BEGIN THE BEGUINE.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more

Added: Oct 30, 2009
Length: 01:29
Purchases: 7

NEA Jazz Master Artie Shaw on Being a Rebel

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

NEA JAZZ MASTER ARTIE SHAW WAS THE SON OF IMMIGRANT PARENTS AND HUNG OUT ON THE STREETS OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more

Added: Oct 30, 2009
Length: :59
Purchases: 8

NEA Jazz Master Artie Shaw on Not Looking Back

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

ARTIE SHAW WAS ONE OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE AND OUTRAGEOUS FIGURES IN JAZZ. HE ONCE WROTE AN EPITAPH FOR HIMSELF WHICH READ, HE DID THE BEST HE COU...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more

Added: Oct 30, 2009
Length: 01:29
Purchases: 8

NEA Jazz Master Marian McPartland on Sidney Bechet Style

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

NEA JAZZ MASTER MARIAN MCPARTLAND WAS A BIG FAN OF CLARINET AND SAX PLAYER, SIDNEY BECHET.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, KMUW and more

Added: Oct 30, 2009
Length: :59
Purchases: 10

NEA Jazz Master Marian McPartland on Duke & Monk Visiting

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

NEA JAZZ MASTER MARIAN MCPARTLAND AND HER TRIO PLAYED A LONG RUNNING GIG AT THE HICKORY HOUSE, A FAMOUS NEW YORK NIGHTCLUB. EVERYONE USED TO STOP ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, KMUW, Harford Community Radio and more

Added: Oct 30, 2009
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 8

NEA Jazz Master Phil Woods on his Teacher's Influence

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

SOME YOUNG MUSICIANS STUMBLE UPON A TEACHER WHO COMPLETELY CHANGES THE COURSE OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT. 2007 NEA JAZZ MASTER PHIL WOODS WAS ONE OF THE...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, WRTI and more

Added: Oct 29, 2009
Length: 01:00
Purchases: 10

NEA Jazz Master Abbey Lincoln on her early influences

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG, NEA JAZZ MASTER ABBEY LINCOLN HEARD HER PARENTS’ BEAUTIFUL VOICES SINGING AROUND THE HOUSE AND IN CHURCH. AT AGE FOURTEEN, HER ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more

Added: Oct 01, 2009
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 8

When Silence Sings

From: Joanne Coombs

Tonie Flaathen has been profoundly deaf from birth. That doesn't stop her from absorbing and relishing the sounds that surround and 'sound' throug...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis

Added: Jul 07, 2009
Length: 29:22
Purchases: 1

Opera Underage

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

A look into the teenage world of opera, give it a try, it's cooler than you think!

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jun 22, 2009
Length: 07:56
Purchases: 1

Rolanda Scott, The Art of Transformation, pt. 1

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Rolanda Scott is a glass sculptor. But she also molds young minds as an art instructor. About eight years ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer ...

Added: Jun 19, 2009
Length: 28:20

Memories of Moog

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

On what would have been his 75th Birthday, we remember Robert Moog, creator of the Moog synthesizer with Roger O’Donnell, former keyboardist with T...

Bought by WMNF