PRX - Pieces for Topic: Music

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Caption: Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
More than a decade before the Big Band Era of 1936, there was big band jazz, and they brought swing to their music. Fletcher Henderson, Duke Elling...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jabbo Smith
This is a feature of those unsung heroes on trumpet and cornet in early jazz. They received little notice because there were two, at that time, who...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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NOTE: The :48 intro CAN be removed without prior permission. Ninety-year-old Nova Scotian, Aggie Barkhouse, reminisces about the hard life of the...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
Caption: Official Press Photo, Credit: Official Album Cover
Mike Zito talked with Country Fried Rock just before the announcement that he was leaving Royal Southern Brotherhood -- a departure with no drama o...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WSLR, KKRN, WLPR , WYAP and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2015
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: All Dies Down by Fire Mountain, Credit: Official Album Cover
Perry Brown is a graphic designer in Montgomery by day, and a musician in his hometown of Troy -- 90 minutes away -- by night. As a band currently...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, WSLR, KSRQ, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 26, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe became the first superstar of gospel music and was an early influence on Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and ...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KMUN, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 8
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Interview plus plenty of great music sung by this young Broadway star.

Bought by KUCO


  • Added: Jan 09, 2006
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Interview about fallout from Sony's failed attempt to protect music CDs from piracy.

  • Added: Nov 23, 2005
  • Length: 12:58
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A primer on the controversial intersection between music and the Internet.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KVNF, WYSO, KUHB, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: May 26, 2005
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7