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In this airing of Folk Salad we will feature an interview with Tulsa singer/songwriter George Barton with Linda Barton. We will also include other...
- Added: Sep 18, 2022
- Length: 58:57
An extended trailer to the upcoming public radio documentary, produced by Paul Ingles, on the early emergence and on-going stellar career of musici...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 09:37
- Purchases: 1
Featuring recorded performances from the 1966 Monterey Festival by Ellis, Sete, Lloyd and others, including Cannonball Adderley, Randy Weston, and ...
- Added: Sep 08, 2022
- Length: 59:00
In the mid-1970s, at the peak of her commercial success, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell took her music in a jazz-influenced direction, working wit...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 59:00
This week, we close out this California Symphony radio broadcast season with
Jessie Montgomery’s riveting composition, "Starburst"; George Walker’...
- Added: Aug 30, 2022
- Length: 01:58:30
On this week’s broadcast of the California Symphony, we’ll hear a work by current Composer-in-Residence Viet Cuong, entitled "Next Week’s Trees", n...
- Added: Aug 29, 2022
- Length: 01:58:30
Jazz for the Labor Day holiday, with special guest jazz historian Ted Gioia (author of the book WORK SONGS). Featured artists include Duke Ellingt...
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WRGY, KBBI Alaska and more
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 40
Jazz with an autumnal theme, from Nat King Cole, Kenny Dorham, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington with Frank Sinatra, Sonny Rollins, and more.
Bought by WCVE, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Radio Catskill and more
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 20
In 1943, Duke Ellington debuted a landmark 43-minute musical portrayal of the African-American experience at Carnegie Hall. We'll hear music from i...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KMUW, WVIA, Radio Catskill and more
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 20
In January 1943, bandleader and composer Duke Ellington took his orchestra into Carnegie Hall for the first time and chose to make his debut with a...
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:03
On this week’s broadcast of the California Symphony, we’ll hear composer D.J. Sparr’s piece entitled, "Dreams of the Old Believers" that’s a musica...
- Added: Aug 23, 2022
- Length: 01:58:30
A centennial salute to talk-show host and jazz advocate Steve Allen, who also played piano and wrote numerous songs such as “This Could Be the Star...
- Added: Aug 19, 2022
- Length: 59:00
On this week’s broadcast of the California Symphony, we’ll hear more from Katherine Balch: her first commissioned piece written during her residenc...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 01:58:30
On this week’s broadcast of the California Symphony, we’ll hear a piece by a past composer-is-residence, Katherine Balch, that was written for her ...
- Added: Aug 15, 2022
- Length: 01:58:30
In the 1950s the young French Algerian pianist Martial Solal emerged on the European jazz scene, playing with Sidney Bechet, Lucky Thompson, and Dj...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 59:00
On this week’s broadcast of the California Symphony, we’ll hear Gabriela Lena Frank’s Three Latin-American Dances for Orchestra; Beethoven’s third ...
- Added: Aug 08, 2022
- Length: 01:58:30
On this week’s broadcast of the California Symphony, we’ll hear one of Beethoven’s most recognizable motifs in his fifth symphony as well as his Ov...
- Added: Jul 28, 2022
- Length: 01:58:30
Throughout jazz history the harp has rarely been heard as a soloing or primary instrument, but in the 1950s and 60s Dorothy Ashby, a musician out o...
Bought by WJCT, KRCU Public Radio, WVTF, KLCC, WNMU-FM and more
- Added: Jul 27, 2022
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 6
A profile of the unsung saxophonist Percy France, whose playing displayed what jazz writer Sascha Feinstein called “an irresistible combination of ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Throughout jazz history the harp has rarely been heard as a soloing or primary instrument, but in the 1950s and 60s Dorothy Ashby, a musician out o...
- Added: Jul 27, 2022
- Length: 59:01
On this week’s broadcast of the California Symphony, we’ll hear a California Symphony Commissioned work entitled "Tangle Eye" by Dan Visconti; Beet...
- Added: Jul 25, 2022
- Length: 01:58:30
In 1970 trumpeter Miles Davis released Bitches Brew, a landmark album that melded jazz, rock, and other elements into a sound that came to be known...
- Added: Jul 21, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Jaco Pastorius transformed the sound of the bass in jazz during his relatively brief career as both a leader and a member of Weather Report. Bassis...
- Added: Jul 06, 2022
- Length: 59:03
A tour of the city’s 20th-century jazz legacy.
- Added: Jul 05, 2022
- Length: 59:03
Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine talk questioning God, channeling Leonard Cohen, and the difference between approval and cooperation.
- Added: Jul 02, 2022
- Length: 22:08
