PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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Both Lemony Snicket (the pen name of Daniel Handler) and Kate DiCamillo are authors of children's literature whose work has multigenerational appea...
- Added: Dec 09, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Jazz and cartoons were a perfect match made in ‘toon heaven in the early years of animation.
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- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Broadcasting from an imaginary music club featuring music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of ... unless you were very hip in the...
- Added: Jun 29, 2015
- Length: 03:02:13
Today’s image of Bing Crosby is that is was a Crooner, possibly one of the finest in American popular music, however, he was much more than that. P...
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- Added: Oct 01, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Here’s another look at the extraordinary talents of Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller, with more humorous stories from behind the scenes.
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- Added: Sep 13, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
A six square mile area of New York City became the hotspot for jazz in the late 1920s. Duke Ellington called it, “The world’s most glamorous atmos...
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- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
The ukulele became as commonplace in the American parlor as the piano in the 1920s. Today we think of the tiny guitar as a Hawaiian instrument, whe...
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- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Laughter is the best medicine. But, it feels that today's musicians may be taking themselves too seriously. Here are selections from the 1920s to t...
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- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Saxophonist Jack Pettis was a pioneer in the introduction of the C-Melody in the early 1920s. According to tenor Bud Freeman, he was the king, and ...
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- Added: Nov 21, 2012
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1