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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 19, 2024
- Length: 07:00
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
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard quickly established himself on the New York scene in the late 1950s. We’ll explore the recordings he made as a sideman wi...
- Added: Sep 08, 2024
- Length: 59:02
In 1957 tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins continued the impressive streak of recordings that he'd begun since returning to the jazz scene in 1955. We...
- Added: Sep 01, 2024
- Length: 59:01
A centennial tribute to the trumpeter's career, spanning his recordings with Charlie Parker in the 1940s to his collaborations with Joe Henderson i...
- Added: Aug 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This hour, we're featuring the 1962-63 Roulette recordings of Dinah Washington, who died at the age of 38 in 1963. Washington's Roulette period off...
- Added: Aug 18, 2024
- Length: 59:01
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Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Royalton Community Radio, KHNS, WFHB, WFiT Melbourne 89.5 FM and more
- Added: Aug 18, 2024
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 21
A centennial celebration of Indiana trombonist J.J. Johnson as both composer and innovative instrumentalist.
- Added: Aug 07, 2024
- Length: 59:04
Music of the Terre Haute, Indiana, big-band leader whose 1940s orchestra helped pave the way for cool jazz.
- Added: Aug 01, 2024
- Length: 59:03
On this edition of Harmonia, we're exploring music inspired by the bird who often proclaims warmer weather...the cuckoo, and its association with h...
- Added: Jul 30, 2024
- Length: 59:01
Trumpeter Don Ellis is best-known today for the big bands he led during the late 1960s and early 1970s and their use of odd time signatures, but he...
- Added: Jul 19, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This week on Afterglow, for Bastille Day, we turn to the music of Paris to hear music written "dans la Mode française," performed by Madeleine Peyr...
Bought by WLRH
- Added: Jul 15, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
A musical quodlibet can be several things — a parody that contains some kind of crazy list, or a piece with well-known melodies that appear in succ...
- Added: Jul 12, 2024
- Length: 58:59
The chalumeau [shall-a-moe] was a single-reed ancestor of the clarinet, whose brief popularity left a lasting impression. We’ll explore music for t...
- Added: Jul 12, 2024
- Length: 58:58
As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...
- Added: Jul 11, 2024
- Length: 59:01
At the beginning of the 1960s saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and pianist Horace Parlan teamed up to make a dynamic run of recordings for the Blue N...
- Added: Jul 07, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Night Lights celebrates America’s Independence Day with music from James Reese Europe, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and other c...
- Added: Jun 27, 2024
- Length: 59:02
A salute to talk-show host and jazz advocate Steve Allen, who also played piano and wrote numerous songs such as “This Could Be the Start of Someth...
- Added: Jun 20, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Singer Thelma Carpenter’s career extended from the swing era to The Wiz and The Cosby Show. We’ll hear her with Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Coleman ...
- Added: Jun 15, 2024
- Length: 59:04
Renaissance and Baroque weddings of the rich and famous were accompanied by entire orchestras. Horse ballet, mock naval-battles, operas, sculptures...
- Added: Jun 11, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Added: May 30, 2024
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 1
A tribute to the pianist featuring his recordings with Stan Getz, Blue Mitchell, Miles Davis, and as a leader in the 1960s.
- Added: May 21, 2024
- Length: 59:02
Trumper Fats Navarro was one of the leading lights of the emerging 1940s bebop movement before dying at the age of 26. We’ll hear some of the most ...
- Added: May 21, 2024
- Length: 59:01
Exploring the brief but profound musical relationship between trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Bill Evans that resulted in the landmark album Kind...
- Added: May 21, 2024
- Length: 59:00
In the spring of 1945 Duke Ellington undertook a weekly Saturday broadcast to support the war-bond drive. We’ll hear music from these programs as ...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 59:02
