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In this podcast Terence Blanchard talks about bringing the sounds of blues and jazz to his opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones, his long collaboration w...
Bought by WILL, RADIOLEX, KZUM, Spokane Public Radio, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.
- Added: Apr 04, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Meet soprano Angel Blue who is opening the new season at the Metropolitan Opera's "Fire Shut Up in My Bones." Composed by Terence Blanchard, it's t...
Bought by WMPG, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 28:44
- Purchases: 3
Composer, Conductor, and Music Director of the Durham Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Curry has inspired generations of musicians and audiences with hi...
Bought by WMPG
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 28:48
- Purchases: 1
We revisit a 2017 conversation with the legendary tenor saxophonist.
Bought by WCNY and Harford Community Radio
- Added: Sep 10, 2020
- Length: 29:44
- Purchases: 2
The Toronto-made film RISE embodies the creative force of a local youth-led spoken word movement known as RISE Edutainment. A subway station serves...
- Added: Feb 04, 2020
- Length: 17:12
In November 2019, Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock brings his mythological “Moundverse” to Miami. Locust Projects gives over the entire s...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 18:03
Robin Barnes was born and raised in the Lower 9th Ward, shuttling between her parents’ and grandparents’ houses and singing the songs they liked to...
- Added: Nov 16, 2018
- Length: 52:00
The BLCK Family, a Miami-based creative collective, fosters opportunities for individual artists to share their original music and poetry in intima...
- Added: Aug 13, 2018
- Length: 11:51
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits once again with Christine Seaborn and Jeanette ...
- Added: Jun 25, 2018
- Length: 25:55
American virtuoso Jason Moran is a genius jazz pianist known for performing experimental compositions in collaborative projects with visual artists...
- Added: Mar 26, 2018
- Length: 18:11
Saxophonist Charles Neville was born into one of New Orleans' most famous musical families, and enjoyed a career spanning more than 60 years before...
Bought by KMUW
- Added: Dec 14, 2017
- Length: 51:59
- Purchases: 1
To Dr. Michael White, it's not just a clarinet, but a time machine.
“I listened to Johnny Dodds’ recordings. I listened to Sidney Bechet. I listen...
Bought by KMUW
- Added: Nov 09, 2017
- Length: 52:12
- Purchases: 1
The Rough Draft Diaries is feeling the blues this week as we hang out with Aayan Naim, leader singer of the blues band, The Good, The Bad, and The ...
- Added: Sep 06, 2016
- Length: 06:04
McBride’s latest book looks to understand what shaped James Brown-- one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
- Added: May 18, 2016
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
Tazewell Thompson may be wowing critics and audiences with his direction of the opera Appomattox, but he’s an equally brilliant theater director an...
Bought by WMUU-LP, WNJR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
Zena, from Oakland, is a singer songwriter, visual artist, storyteller – and one of the few women masters of the kora – a West African harp – taugh...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 06:21
Two conversations with NEA Jazz Masters. First up, drummer Roy Haynes. He's followed by musician, composer, and bandleader Gerald Wilson.
- Added: Jul 03, 2014
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 2
Chick Corea speaks with Josh Jackson about Scriabin, Thelonious Monk, and Paco De Lucia. He shares his solo piano inventions from "Portraits" (Conc...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 58:59
Anthony Braxton may be considered avant garde but he embraces all musical traditions
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 40:46
This Black History Month Special documentary traces how the Louisiana Creole music known as zydeco found on a new home 2,000 miles from its birthpl...
- Added: Feb 18, 2014
- Length: 01:02:45
- Purchases: 3
Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 11:13
In this unedited podcast, Cathy Byrd shares a conversation with artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, that she recorded in his Houston, Texas, studio.
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 24:25
"I always thought of the acoustic bass as the quintessential jazz instrument... I knew that jazz meant cool, and hip, and on the cutting edge, and ...
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 16:39
- Purchases: 4
In his Brooklyn home, activist artist Danny Simmons talks to Cathy Byrd about the essential elements of his creative practice—writing, painting, co...
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 16:51
Jazz drummer and club owner, Albert Coleman, joins hosts Bev Smith and William Hosea by phone for a trip down the Avenue as he remembers the jazz s...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 57:36
