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Vijay Iyer: Jazz in the 21st Century

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Where is jazz headed in a new century? With the pianist Vijay Iyer as guide, newly tenured as a professor at Harvard, it tends toward the experimen...

Bought by KMUW and KFOK-LPFM

Added: Jun 20, 2014
Length: 58:36
Purchases: 2

A Conversation with Jennifer Pickering-Founder and director of Lake Eden Arts Festival

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Boukman Eksperyans, Credit: Courtesy of LEAF

For Jennifer Pickering, all art is both local and global and LEAF is that philosophy in action.

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Jun 05, 2014
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 1

Bluegrass Review #1419. Program for May 3 - 9, 2014.

From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review

Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman

Inspired by a recent broadcast that featured story songs, towards the beginning of the show we hit the mother lode of story songs: those that tell ...

Bought by KSJD, KEOS, WOUB, KSKQ, KPVL and more

Added: Apr 21, 2014
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 18

El Sistema: Music Lessons to Rebuild the World

From: Open Source

El Sistema is not an instruction method so much as a shared conviction: that every child wants to make music, and can. It has big social implicatio...

Bought by KWMR and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Mar 25, 2014
Length: 50:57
Purchases: 2

A conversation with Anthony Braxton

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Anthony Braxton, Credit: Photo by Michael G. Stewart

Anthony Braxton may be considered avant garde but he embraces all musical traditions

Added: Mar 21, 2014
Length: 40:46

A conversation with Keith Jarrett

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Keith Jarrett, Credit: Rose Anne Colavito

Pianist Keith Jarrett - letting the music happen.

Added: Mar 21, 2014
Length: 34:27

Bonjour Chanson Series 11 Episode 55

From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 11

Caption: The Port of Sète, South of France

Tenderness, sarcasm, heartache and longing. All these emotions are present in the French language songs we'll introduce in English in this episode...

Bought by KUT and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio

Added: Oct 07, 2012
Length: 27:08
Purchases: 2

JazzStories: Gretchen Parlato

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

Vocalist and songwriter Gretchen Parlato's music is introspective and crafted with a knowing touch. Winner of the 2004 Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocalis...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WNCU

Added: Aug 09, 2012
Length: 15:06
Purchases: 4

JazzStories: Benny Golson

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"...This country lookin' guy was standing there in the door, waiting for me to tell him what to do. So I said, 'play something!' He took out his ...

Bought by KMUW, WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP

Added: Jul 26, 2012
Length: 19:40
Purchases: 4

JazzStories: Todd Barkan Part II

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"One of the greatest joys I have had in my musical career has been providing employment for musicians, actually handing them [work]. Now I hand th...

Bought by KALW, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP

Added: Jun 19, 2012
Length: 19:52
Purchases: 3

JazzStories: Gary Burton and Julian Lage

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"There’s an interesting thing that happens. You prepare a piece. You rehearse it. It sounds perfect...And you go out and play it on the first night...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, and PRX Remix

Added: Apr 20, 2012
Length: 16:42
Purchases: 4

JazzStories: Bill Frisell

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"I had moved to New York and spent a couple of years here scuffling around. I was getting a little discouraged, playing a lot of weddings. It wasn'...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP

Added: Apr 20, 2012
Length: 13:41
Purchases: 3

JazzStories: Vijay Iyer

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"I kind of had a revelation once seeing him [Randy Weston] play live. It happened for me in a particular time in my life when I recently made the d...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP

Added: Apr 12, 2012
Length: 12:02
Purchases: 3

JazzStories: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Doug Wamble

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

“The essential ingredient of jazz is listening. And then the response... and out of that something unexpected comes rather than some fulfillment of...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and 90.5 WSNC

Added: Oct 27, 2011
Length: 08:29
Purchases: 4

Keeping the Music Playing... After Losing Your Hearing

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: Charles Mokotoff spent years hiding his hearing loss, as he performed and taught classical guitar., Credit: Cathy Dyer

Finding out you have hearing loss might not be music to your ears... but it doesn't mean you have to change your tune.

Bought by KVNF, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Louisville Public Media

Added: Aug 01, 2011
Length: 06:10
Purchases: 4

The Audiophiles: Zoe Keating’s one-woman orchestra

From: KALW

Caption: Cellist Zoe Keating uses a cello and a foot-controlled laptop to record layer upon layer of sound. , Credit: Jerry Dodrill

Zoe Keating's unique style of music has gotten her to the top of the iTunes classical and electronic music charts, and all the while she's remained...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jun 23, 2011
Length: 10:12
Purchases: 1

Bonjour Chanson Series 8, Episode 39

From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 8

Six Francophone Singers/Songwriters are introduced in a manner that English speaking Audiences can understand and enjoy. Some are rising stars, oth...

Bought by KUT

Added: Jan 17, 2011
Length: 27:40
Purchases: 1

Abraham Lincoln's Portrait (Part 2)

From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: GW Presents Beyond Category

Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer joins host Dick Golden to paint a portrait of America's 16th president through words and the music of Tony Bennett.

Bought by KUCB

Added: Jan 23, 2010
Length: 57:29
Purchases: 1

Abraham Lincoln's Portrait (Part 1)

From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: GW Presents Beyond Category

Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer joins host Dick Golden to paint a portrait of America's 16th president through words and the music of Tony Bennett.

Bought by KUCB and KUT

Added: Jan 22, 2010
Length: 57:28
Purchases: 2

Bonjour Chanson Series 6, Episode 30

From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 6

Six French Language Artists each bring you one song. You'll learn about the Artists and the Songs in English and you'll listen to the song in Frenc...

Bought by KUT

Added: Nov 24, 2009
Length: 24:39
Purchases: 1

Bonjour Chanson, Series 5, Episode 21

From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 5

A selection of French Language Popular Music songs presented with an English speaking audience in mind.

Bought by KUT-HD

Added: May 22, 2009
Length: 26:08
Purchases: 1

Memories of Moog

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

On what would have been his 75th Birthday, we remember Robert Moog, creator of the Moog synthesizer with Roger O’Donnell, former keyboardist with T...

Bought by WMNF