PRX - Pieces for Tone: Intimate

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Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:00
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There is no generic description that captures the essence of darkness. And this is what makes darkness so compelling.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2022
  • Length: 08:48
Caption: Olivia Hooker, Age 6 in 1921
On May 31, 1921, Olivia Hooker was six-years-old when white mobs launched an attack on the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In less than 24 ho...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KOSU, KHSU, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 4

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
Caption: A pirate and his bird, Credit: Lu Olkowski
In this installment of CARGOLAND, Lu Olkowski meets one man who embodies the spirit of the fast-fading waterfront. Morning sunlight streams through...

Bought by HowSound, WRPI, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 30:26
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Sax titan John Coltrane
In this hour, it's the life and legend of John Coltrane—from his rural North Carolina roots to his place as one of jazz's most spiritual men and mu...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, KZYX, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 34
Caption: Guitarist Pat Martino survived a brain aneurysm to become one of the most soulful voices of jazz guitar.
It's one of jazz's all-time great comeback stories: In the 1950s, the great Duke Ellington was seen as a "has been." Then, out of nowhere, an epic ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCPN, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KHNS, WCPN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 25
Caption: Nina Simone, the "High Priestess of Soul"
In this hour, it's the life and music of Nina Simone—from her roots as a gospel and classical musician to her place as one of jazz's fiercest voice...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, WCPN, KMUN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 38
Caption: Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman in the 1961 movie, "Paris Blues"
In this hour of The New Jazz Archive, we explore the shared history of jazz and film—from the role race played in shaping jazz's place at the movie...

Bought by WCPN, KHNS, KMUN, WVPE, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29
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In a series of audio postcards, the Weekday High Interns take you through the Pike Place Market ? stopping along the way at Marakesh Leathers, Gold...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:43
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This Story is Free! Homebirths are common in Pakistan, and Mandy Cunningham goes on the ground to try to understand the many risks associated with ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:41
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This story is free! Hear about how difficult it is for a pregnant women to get medical care in a small village in Nepal

  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:01
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A Brooklyn woman how on St. Patrick's Day her father and his friends from the neighborhood would sing a spirited rendition of the classic drinking ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, The Neighborhood, and WFUV


  • Added: May 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 5
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A song and memory story about a Christian summer camp, John Denver and a psychotherapeutic fad from the seventies.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KRCC-FM


  • Added: May 15, 2006
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 4
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The exhiled son of Ghana's former emir, king of the Muslim people, remembers the song his father listened to as he carried the burden of leading Gh...

Bought by PRX Remix, KUOW, KCUR, and KZYX


  • Added: May 15, 2006
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 4
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Singer songwriter Erin McKeown muses about her artistic process and fascination with Judy Garland in WXPN's continuing series of short modules call...

Bought by PRX Remix, WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Gergiev conducts Rotterdam in Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" - in its entirety.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2004
  • Length: 02:54:50
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A day in the life of one of Kentucky's few remaining dairy farmers and his cheese shop

Bought by KZSC


  • Added: Jun 10, 2004
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 1