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This airing of Folk Salad Celebrates Mother's Day in all it's many facets from those paying loving tribute to those who grew up absent a mother to ...

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
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This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome noted Polish vocalist and composer Grazyna Auguscik with a stellar group, celebrating Grazyna’s newest re...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
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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
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Join us this week on Harmonia as we explore how generations of musicians adapted existing music for their instruments through the art of intabulati...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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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
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This airing of Folk Salad features some new and older music that we have been digging into. Artists like Nicolette and the Nobodies, Cody Jinks, K...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
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Part II of coming back to Oklahoma on Folk Salad. We will play artists from Jimmy Markham to Charlie Chirstian. Select tunes from Tommy Crook, Je...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
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In the late 1970s the Columbia label was home to an array of talented jazz musicians, including Woody Shaw, Arthur Blythe, Dexter Gordon, and Weath...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:04
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The rise of big bands in the 1930s and 40s played a key role in the popularization of jazz, and provided a soundtrack for Americans navigating a ch...

  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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In the early 1970s trumpeter Freddie Hubbard made a series of records for the CTI label that combined hardbop, funk, modality, and 70s groove.

  • Added: May 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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Though Nat King Cole is remembered today for his popular vocal recordings, this show celebrates his unsung prowess as a modernistic pianist.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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When Christian IV of Denmark visited his brother-in-law James Stuart in England, they threw some raucous, wild parties, so not surprisingly King Ch...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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A centennial tribute to the composer focusing on the jazzy music that he wrote for films and TV shows such as Touch Of Evil and Peter Gunn.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:04
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Tonight on Folk Salad we celebrate April Fools, by featuring all songs about "Fools." You would be surprised how many songs that have been written...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
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Siinger/songwriter Malcolm Holcombe passed from this earth Mar. 9th, 2024. Malcolm was rooted in this earth, but when he performed he was never re...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
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Folk Salad celebrates female singer/songwriters, prompted by a new release from Sarah Jarosz.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
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The focus on this Folk Salad program is Women's History Month with all Oklahoma female artists, and there are plenty to choose from starting with W...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
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In 1957 Curtis Fuller arrived in New York City at the age of 22 and preceded to record with Bud Powell, Jimmy Smith, and John Coltrane, as well as ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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A centennial tribute to singer Sarah Vaughan focuses on her early recordings with Billy Eckstine’s big band and as a rising solo star with Charlie ...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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For two weeks Bill McGlaughlin and Carnegie Hall’s Archivist Gino Francesconi toured backstage for a view of the three concert venues, the hall’s h...

Bought by KCME


  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 46:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Exploring a legendary 1950s New York City jazz club with musician David Amram, who frequented it as both a musician and a listener.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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Although an admirer of Jimmy Smith, Shirley Scott found her own sound on the Hammond B-3 and became its most renowned female practitioner, recordin...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Bee Taylor makes her debut on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Texas songwriter Bee Taylor and raw Americana duo Goldpine.

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KBRW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KJZX-Austin, KMSU and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 30