PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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Jazz didn’t emerge from a vacuum. It was an amalgamation of several musical forms including blues, skiffle, the call and response, vaudeville, and ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 26, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
How modern policing problems are connected to a wide range of historical issues.
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 05:00
This is a look at four inventive musicians who pioneered the early stages of jazz: Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Colman Hawkins and Frankie T...
- Added: Aug 20, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
Back from a three week vacation with a new persona - "your invisible friend." Too much windshield time.
- Added: Aug 17, 2015
- Length: 02:50:38
By the mid 1920s jazz was established as the primary popular music in America. But, the musicians were not satisfied with just being on top. They h...
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
As Big Band Swing began to fade in popularity, the musicians of the 1920s saw their chance at reviving their music.
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- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
During the early years of jazz, vocalists had to experiment with the best way to compliment musicians that specialized in improvisation and counter...
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- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Before the 1920s it was almost unheard of for female vocalists to record popular music. That is unless they were singing a number from their Broadw...
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- Added: Jul 21, 2015
- Length: 59:00
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Louis Metcalf was an inventive jazz cornet and trumpet artist best remembered for his short stint with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1927.
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- Added: Jul 13, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
By 1930 Irving Mills had the world on a string. His music publishing business was booming, and he began to expand his control over his musicians.
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- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 59:01
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He may not have been much of a musician, but Irving Mills was enough of an entrepreneur to understand the value of popular music. Jazz was its name.
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- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 58:59
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Broadcasting from an imaginary music club featuring music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of ... unless you were very hip in the...
- Added: Jun 29, 2015
- Length: 03:02:13
Sleepers: Those wonderfully talented band of the last 1920s who were kept in the dark. Somehow, despite their inventiveness, they never reached a l...
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- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
When Okey Records approached Louis Armstrong with the idea of forming his own studio band to bring hot jazz to the American public, Louis jumped at...
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- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
In 1931, a fresh new band recorded its first four sides at the Victor Studios, New York City. This young band dared to buck the trend by playing ho...
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- Added: Jun 10, 2015
- Length: 59:00
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Memphis Tennessee became a musical Mecca in the 1920s, and Beale Street was its center. W.C. Handy was arguably the most influential composer sprea...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
The earliest jazz big bands had swing, yet they are not considered part of the “Swing Era.” Part of the reasoning behind that is simply the need to...
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
When we hear the phrase "Under The Influence," there are bad connotations that follow. But what about when influence is good, because it sets our c...
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- Added: May 21, 2015
- Length: 59:02
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Originally transmitted May 16, 2105. Joe Nick Patoski spins more great Texas platters and provides his trademark brand of radio salvation.
- Added: May 21, 2015
- Length: 01:48:54
The all-star battery mates, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang met in high school. Both were violinist, but Eddie eventually switched to guitar. They became...
- Added: May 19, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
Author and activist Joe Wenke speaks with some of the foremost advocates for change. They have a determined commitment to freedom and equality.
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- Added: May 14, 2015
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
The music of Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael performed by musicians in the 1920s to the 1990s.
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- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 58:59
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Several pioneers of jazz made their way overseas to perform for a European audience that, in many cases, were far more receptive of their music tha...
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- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 58:58
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Pinto Pete and His Ranch Hands is an old time radio cowboy music show. Return to YesterYear while kicking back on the couch or roaming the West. Li...
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 12:29
“Back Beat” is used as a reference to Rock & Roll denoting the 2nd and 4th beats, however, in this case, it fits for the pioneer percussionists of ...
- Added: Apr 29, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
