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Powell biographer Peter Pullman joins us again to help chronicle the up-and-down final years of a bebop piano legend.
- Added: Sep 21, 2024
- Length: 59:02
Bud Powell revolutionized jazz piano for the bebop generation and beyond. For this centennial tribute, we focus on his early years and talk with Po...
- Added: Sep 14, 2024
- Length: 59:02
A deep look inside the process of music discovery.
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:01
Our age-old response to this life on earth: yours, theirs, all of ours.
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
A deeper look inside the art of using fewer words to say more.
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
A look at the nature of performance, and its effect on performer and audience alike.
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:02
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
https://indianapublicmedia.org/porchlight/note-to-self.php
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 59:00
The hours around dawn, reflected upon in story and song.
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 59:00
One of the greats of early rock 'n' roll, remembered in story and song.
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 59:02
In honor of the 139th anniversary of his birth, this week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a tribute to singularly extraordinary Parag...
- Added: Jan 12, 2024
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 57
Music Archive Showcase #159 - TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Fred Parnes & Peter Case on Peter Case Documentary
From: Paul InglesSeries: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Music Specials Producer Paul Ingles talks with Fred Parnes, the director of a film documentary about the critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Pet...
Bought by WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio, KUPR low power FM, KSJE, and KUHF
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
In the 1980s a new generation of women jazz musicians emerged who expanded their predecessors' push against the patriarchal boundaries of the jazz ...
- Added: Oct 13, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Indianapolis' Indiana Avenue neighborhood produced several of the most influential jazz artists to appear on the post-World War II jazz scene, incl...
- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 59:01
In this optional second hour, book editor Holly Gleason and 3 other contributors to the 2023 book release called PRINE ON PRINE: INTERVIEWS AND ENC...
Bought by WAMU, WRVO Public Media, KFSK, KSJE, KUHF and more
- Added: Sep 25, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
Jim Capobianco and Robert Rippberger talk the warmth of imperfection, grocery lists in odd places, and not killing the animators.
- Added: Sep 15, 2023
- Length: 18:24
A program featuring the 1970s music of alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, including commentary from Desmond friend and biographer Doug Ramsey.
- Added: Sep 01, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Exploring the emergence of a kinetic jazz scene in 1920s Indiana, with commentary from historian James Madison and others.
- Added: Aug 26, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi joins us to discuss a vital and often-overlooked period of the trumpeter’s career.
- Added: Jun 29, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Ellington kept his orchestra together in a changing economic landscape, continuing to create memorable music and expanding his compositional horizons.
- Added: Jun 08, 2023
- Length: 59:01
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is a celebration of music by American composers, Copland, John Philips Sousa, and more, and features...
Bought by Ohm Radio , WPVM 103.7, KMUN, WUAL, WRTI and more
- Added: Apr 03, 2023
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 60
On this MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE episode, it's the first of a two-part edition from our occasional series TALK MUSIC WITH ME. We dig back a few deca...
Bought by North State Public Radio, KFSK, KUPR low power FM, WHRV, WRVO Public Media and more
- Added: Mar 16, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
Pianist Don Shirley combined classical, jazz, and spiritual influences on the many recordings he made in the 1950s and 60s. A forgotten figure in ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Vibraphonist Gary Burton was still a teenager when he burst onto the 1960s jazz scene, going on to work with Stan Getz and make a number of memorab...
- Added: Jan 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Matt Mullins and the Bringdowns come from Beckley, West Virginia with howling harmonicas, a raw blues guitar, and bone chilling vocals.
Matt Mull...
- Added: Jan 10, 2023
- Length: 58:12