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He was one of the pioneers of jazz on the violin. Though largely self taught, his career lasted some 77 years, and he recorded hundred of albums. p...
- Added: Nov 21, 2011
- Length: 06:00
Armstrong was born in Storyville, a redlight district of New Orleans, 1901. His father left and his mother was probably a prostitute. He first lear...
- Added: Jun 18, 2011
- Length: 03:00
If the sound of his name isn't familiar, the sound of his voice certainly is. This is the unlikely story of four Detroit kids who went to a birthda...
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 03:00
A Gypsy, he never lived in a house or wore a suit until age twenty. At age 18, a late-night caravan fire left him with only two, useful fingers on ...
- Added: May 10, 2011
- Length: 03:00
So ... who was Amy Beach? Simply one of the greatest American composers many of us have never heard.
- Added: Dec 03, 2010
- Length: 03:00
He was America's first rock star ... and we knew him as Johnny Ace
- Added: Nov 18, 2010
- Length: 03:00
His friends called him "Hoochie Coo," and he was one of the great jazz pianists ... composer of hundreds of songs, but best known for writing the t...
- Added: Nov 15, 2010
- Length: 03:00
You may not know his name, but chances are good you could sing, hum or whistle one of his tunes.
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:00
The Buddy Holly pilot. Everybody knows how Roger Peterson died, but almost nobody knows who he was.
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:00
An 'in dialect' and audio narrative of rural poems from the Annapolis Valley, in Nova Scotia, Canada
- Added: May 02, 2006
- Length: 02:36
Famed pipa virtuoso Wu Man in her own words and her music
- Added: Oct 03, 2003
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 7
