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The Emergence of Linda Ronstadt
From: Paul Ingles
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The remarkable and varied performing career of Linda Ronstadt is explored by a panel of her friends, music writers, musicians and fans. Plus archi...

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 20
Paul Ingles' Music Showcase #004 - Why Monterey Pop Mattered (Hour 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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Hour 2 of an appreciation of the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, generally recognized as the first pop or rock festival of all-time.

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Hour 27: Un Poco Loco - The Intensity of Bud Powell
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Mentored by Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell became the first great piano innovator of bebop. “It would be hard to overstate Powell’s impact. His ingeni...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 20
Hour 26: That Dizzy Cat - Dizzy Gillespie
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Dizzy Gillespie grew up professionally playing in the big bands of Teddy Hill, Cab Calloway, Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine and writing for Woody He...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 25: Yardbird - The Savoy and Dial Recordings of Charlie Parker
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Emerging from the Jay McShann Orchestra from Kansas City and relentlessly curious about how to play the new music he heard in his head, Charlie Par...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 24: Bebop's Twin - Rhythm and Blues
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Some of the same forces that launched Bebop as a break from Big Band Swing, also fueled the birth of Rhythm and Blues – the rise of independent lab...

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 20
Hour 23: Birth of Bebop
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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“By the early 1940s … a new approach to small-combo jazz playing was developing, characterized by a more flexible approach to rhythm, a more aggres...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 22: Bebop Big Bands - Earl Hines, Billy Eckstine, Woody Herman, Claude Thornhill
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Although Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Woody Herman soldiered on, mostly keeping bands on the road into the 1970s (Ellington) and 1980s (Basie an...

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 21: The Swing Era
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the very dance-oriented swinging music of the Big Bands was the most popular music around. Never had jazz been m...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
Hour 20: Small Groups – Benny Goodman, Django Reinhardt, John Kirby
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In the last hour we heard from prominent Swing Era soloists Chu Berry, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Hodges and Lester Young, featured in small group settin...

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 20
Hour 19: Small Groups – Chu Berry, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Hodges, Lester Young
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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While the jazz of the thirties was predominantly remembered as coming from orchestras and big bands, seminal soloists continued to record memorable...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 18
Hour 18: The Entertainers - Fats Waller
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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By far the most commercially successful of the stride pianists, he made his reputation (and his living) through comedy. “He wasn’t witty, if that w...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Hour 17: The Entertainers – Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway and Lionel Hampton
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Jazz has often been understood through the lens of the conflict between art and commerce. In the 1930s, several artists successfully blurred these ...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Hour 15: Chick Webb & Benny Goodman
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In the mid-1930s, jazz orchestras led by drummer Chick Webb and clarinetist Benny Goodman rose to prominence with the arrangements of Edgar Sampson...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:06
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 14: Beyond Category - Duke Ellington in the 1930s
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In the last hour, we heard Count Basie emerge as an exciting new voice from Kansas City. In this hour, we return to New York to follow Duke Ellingt...

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  • Added: May 26, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 13: Count Basie - Dueling Tenors and the Great American Rhythm Section
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In the eleventh hour of Jazz at 100, we followed Count Basie through the Benny Moten Band in Kansas City and heard his first recordings as a leader...

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  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 11 - Kansas City and the Territory Bands
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In this hour, we’ll explore the early jazz of Kansas City and the Territory Bands.

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  • Added: May 05, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 10: Birth of the Big Bands
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In the last hour, we listened to the pioneering jazz orchestra of Duke Ellington. Large jazz ensembles, such as Ellington’s, soon to be known as “B...

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  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 9: Up in Harlem - Duke Ellington
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In previous programs in this series, we have listened to Stride pianists and jazz orchestras from New York. In this hour, we’ll return to Harlem to...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 25
Hour 8: Bix and the Boys
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In this hour we will listen to Bix Beiderbecke's music often in the company of C-melody saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer. We’ll also listen to several...

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  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 23
Hour 6: Up in Harlem – Stride
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In this hour we’ll stick with New York, but focus in on the piano music of Harlem – “Stride.” We are joined in this hour by Art Wheeler, pianist, p...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 5: Up in Harlem – The Bands
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Now we move to the other emerging center of the music, New York. While New York hosted small combos similar to Chicago, it also grew a number of si...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 23
Euphoria of Wine: Varietals and History
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses the history and evolution of wine with Glenn McGourty, the Winegrowing and Plant Science Advisor at the University of Calif...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
16-18 Agustin Barrios Mangore Tribute
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Nitsuga Mangore (Agustin Barrios Mangore)
In honor of the 131st anniversary of his birth, this week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive features a tribute to Paraguayan guitarist-composer A...

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  • Added: May 04, 2016
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 42
Across The Blue Ridge - Episode 9 (Music of Southwestern Virginia and Beyond)
From: WFDD
Caption: Wade Ward (l.) and Charlie Higgins were two of the most revered old time musicians from the southwest of Virginia in and around the town of Galax. We hear from them and others in a program with a big component of southwest Virginia musicians. , Credit: Photo: John Cohen
This week we check out some songs and tunes old and new from the Galax, Virginia area and beyond.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 57:07