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Old-time fiddler and National Heritage Fellow Eddie Bond talks about the music he plays and the folks who taught him.
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 26:23
Fifty years ago the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors began publishing the Journal devoted to early jazz.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 08, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
French-American music is thriving in Maine and Don and Cindy Roy have a lot to do with that!
- Added: Sep 21, 2018
- Length: 01:00
The Lotus World Music and Arts Festival may be global but it has deep roots in Bloomington, Indiana.
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- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Conductor and singer Malcolm J. Merriweather: a young maestro extends a classical tradition.
- Added: Jul 20, 2018
- Length: 28:30
It's a jazzy show as impressario Todd Barkan remembers his life with the music and musicians.
- Added: Jul 20, 2018
- Length: 34:01
National Heritage Fellow Artemio Posadas has devoted his life to keeping the Mexican musical tradition of son huasteco vibrant. We learn about Pos...
- Added: Jun 29, 2018
- Length: 21:59
- Purchases: 2
Jack Teagarden and Pee Wee Russell: They each approached their music very differently. At the same time, that’s what made them similar.
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- Added: May 29, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
This time we profile Floyd Jones, a serious and thoughtful songwriter, who was in the studio for Chess Records in 1951.
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile guitarist Big Joe Williams and harmonica ace John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, who last recorded together, this week in 1947.
- Added: Apr 27, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Robert Johnson, who made his recording debut the week of Thanksgiving, 1936.
- Added: Apr 20, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Big Maceo, who recorded his “magnum opus” — the barnstorming instrumental “Chicago Breakdown” — this week in 1945.
- Added: Apr 11, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile the Memphis Jug Band, whose 1929 recording, “K.C. Moan,” was one of the 84 selections on the “Anthology of American Folk Music.”
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Sid Hemphill, who was recorded by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress, this week in 1942.
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Urban Arias creates and presents contemporary opera for contemporary audiences.
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- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 29:57
- Purchases: 1
Rapper Dessa explores her broken heart at the intersection of science and music
- Added: Mar 08, 2018
- Length: 29:45
- Purchases: 4
This program is devoted to the creative composers, vocalists and musicians who were so important in the early years of jazz.
- Added: Mar 01, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
2016 National Heritage Fellow and Dakota flute player and maker Bryan Akipa is reinvigorating a First Nation musical tradition.
Bought by KZUM
- Added: Nov 21, 2017
- Length: 21:41
- Purchases: 1
2017 National Heritage Fellow buck dancer Thomas Maupin lets his feet do the talking.
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 26:29
- Purchases: 1
It's Sonny Rollins 87th birthday and he sat down with the NEA's Josephine Reed to talk about his life in music.
- Added: Aug 31, 2017
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
To whom do we give the title, "Origin of the Blues"? No one truly knows, but there a several geographical locations that have dibs. Does it matter?
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- Added: Jul 20, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
It is my pleasure to share this demo created by Bob Shohet, a prospective WMNR broadcaster. I admire Bob's personable delivery and his genuine enth...
- Added: Jun 24, 2017
- Length: 31:42
Try to arrive at a definitive, all-inclusive understanding of jazz, and you’ll be mistaken. After all, the real beauty of the music is that it cann...
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- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Renée Fleming along with other musicians and scientists look at the remarkable ability of music to make us whole.
- Added: Jun 16, 2017
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 3
Pianist and 2017 NEA Jazz Master Dick Hyman is a musical shape-shifter.
- Added: Apr 18, 2017
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
