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On this episode, we talked about the new book "Rock Guitar Virtuosos," an academic book that acts as a study of old and new guitar shredders, what ...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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In this episode, we talked about the new book "3 Shades of Blue," which discusses the careers of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans, and th...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2024
  • Length: 26:57
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On this episode, we talked about the book "The Underground is Massive," which charts the foundation and development of Electronic Dance Music (EDM)...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
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On this episode, we looked at the book "Now and Forever," one of the first book-length investigations into the many ways that loops (repeated audio...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2024
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the new book "The Needle and the Lens," which explores pop songs used in film. So...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 27:32
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode, we talked about the book "Krautrock," a recent addition to the 33 1/3 "Genre" series that explores the history and influence of Ge...

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  • Added: Jan 06, 2024
  • Length: 27:34
  • Purchases: 1
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We will not wait to be drafted into jazz radio service, we shall volunteer, and do it gladly. When Quincy Jones recorded for A & M records, the sou...

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
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On this episode, we talked about John Luther Adams and his biography, "Silences So Deep," which focuses on his time living in Alaska between 1978 a...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2023
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode, we talked about the new Harvey Sachs book "Schoenberg: Why He Matters," which looks at the life and music of a composer who is one...

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:39
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode, we talked about ambient and pop music polymath Brian Eno's Diary, which was recently re-published in a special 25th anniversary ed...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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On this episode, we talked about a couple of new books that help to celebrate Pink Floyd's iconic Dark Side of the Moon album as it turns 50 this y...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:06
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about the music of Beck, which is discussed song by song in a new book that you can bor...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about composer and multi-instrumentalist Henry Threadgill's new autobiography "Easily S...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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On this episode, we talked about the great new book "On Minimalism," a reassessment of this musical movement full of primary-source documents and r...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:27
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about "Beautiful Dreamer," the first biography of guitarist and composer Bill Frisell, ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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On today’s episode, Die Hard versus Lethal Weapon with filmmaker Shane Black and writer-director Jeb Stuart. Later in our program, the screenwriter...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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The turntable must first be warmed up, so we start with saxophonist Paul Desmond, flutist Clifford Jordan and singer Dakota Staton. Next, New Moon ...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
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This week on On Story, legendary director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Rachel Getting Married, Philadelphia) spoke with Paul Thomas Anders...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Trisco Pearson of Force M.D.'s, Credit: Shefik
Acceptance - Force M.D.'s is a vocal group formed in 1981. Trisco Pearson later joined the group. They released a collection of R&B hits throughout...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:29
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with artist, curator, and SCSU graduate KOBI abo...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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Light and lilting we go with all-new releases the first segment, and without intensity for a time. Pianist Roland Tempelaar plays it safe swinging ...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 8
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After a year of darkness, St. Cloud State University’s Theatre program lights the stage again for two public performances of "Clockwork" - an origi...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:01
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Starting with the best re-release of 2020, listen to bassist Neil Swainson in his only album as leader with trumpeter Woody Shaw. From the late ’90...

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 9
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Tonight on The Sound we have Minnesota bluegrass band Barbaro with us to talk about their latest album, “Dressed in Roses”. Dressed in Roses was re...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 53:52
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Another block added to our ever-growing Patchwork Quilt. No special theme ties these works together. Just outstanding performances and compositio...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2020
  • Length: 58:30