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A Shortcut Through 2023
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: GW Bridge June 2023
A retrospective of the entire year, including the major political, cultural and emotional events, with music and celebrations of those who've left ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KSRQ, WJCT, KMSU, KMXT and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:36
  • Purchases: 6
Number 9 Shortcut
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Nine
An extended reworking of the Beatles track "Number 9" which serves as the introduction to Shortcuts and it's influences with additional music from ...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 58:24
Shortcuts 2020 Tributes
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Fred Willard
An additional hour of tributes from just a few of those lost in 2020

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Dec 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 1
A Shortcut Through 2020
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A final look at an impossible year, 12 months of incredible drama, played out over the world stage in an hour long retrospective

Bought by KMUN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Mississippi Public Broadcasting, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:09
  • Purchases: 13
Program 3; Chamber Music Northwest 2019
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Chamber Music Northwest 2019
Caption: Join Suzanne Nance (left) and Robert McBride (right) for the 48th Annual Chamber Music Northwest Summer Festival
This is the third in five installments of the Chamber Music Northwest Radio Series. CMNW creates an environment for great chamber music to exist at...

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio, WBAA, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, and KWAX


  • Added: May 07, 2020
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 5
Mariachi Arcoiris
From: Ruxandra Guidi
Series: Surviving California
Piece image
Carlos Samaniego created Mariachi Arcoiris de Los Ángeles, or Mariachi Rainbow, back in 2000 for a pride event. Almost two decades later, the group...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 06:53
Episode 02: She Looked Into Infinity
From: Blue Bliss
Series: Poe: The Raven-Winged Hours
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
In mourning at his wife's grave, Edgar Poe encounters unnatural and supernatural beings.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 22:00
Episode 03: Beneath the Cold Moon
From: Blue Bliss
Series: Poe: The Raven-Winged Hours
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
As he lies dying in the hospital, Edgar Poe drifts in and out of consciousness, mingling strange dreams with the sounds of the hospital.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 23:39
Episode 04: Deliriously Sweet, Teardrops Fall
From: Blue Bliss
Series: Poe: The Raven-Winged Hours
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
In the hospital where he lies dying, alarming sensations bleed into Edgar Poe's fevered hallucinations.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 19:07
Episode 05: The Pain
From: Blue Bliss
Series: Poe: The Raven-Winged Hours
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
Mourning for his lost love compels Edgar Poe to inhabit his poem "The Raven."

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 21:11
Episode 06: The Ray of Sunken Suns
From: Blue Bliss
Series: Poe: The Raven-Winged Hours
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
Edgar Poe is confronted by his doppelganger and has some words with a mummy.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 24:26
Episode 07: A Dreamer in the Moonbeam
From: Blue Bliss
Series: Poe: The Raven-Winged Hours
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
In the library of an old decaying mansion, Edgar Poe awakes into a nightmare.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 19:37
Episode 08: Truth is a Lie
From: Blue Bliss
Series: Poe: The Raven-Winged Hours
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
Edgar Poe arrives at the Antarctic Pole in search of a secret passage to the Beyond.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 22:05
Episode 09: In the Deep Sky
From: Blue Bliss
Series: Poe: The Raven-Winged Hours
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
In Antarctica Edgar Poe finds a secret passage between this world and the next.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 34:58
Episode 10: The Raven-Winged Hours
From: Blue Bliss
Series: Poe: The Raven-Winged Hours
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
An art song that tells the story of Edgar Poe's passion, death and afterlife.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 24:03
Blue Note Records (Ep. 13)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Blue Note saxman Sonny Rollins, Credit: Francis Wolff
In this hour, it's the myth and magic of the label that defined mid-century jazz: Blue Note Records.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WCPN, WVPE, Radio New Zealand and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 28
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (Ep. 12)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Rahssan Roland Kirk
His unrivaled ability for playing many instruments at once made him one of the most unique jazz musicians of all time. But Rahsaan Roland Kirk's ba...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WCPN, KHNS, WCPN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 30
John Coltrane (Ep. 10)
From: Jeff Haas
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
Jazz and the Visual Arts (Ep. 9)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: "Out Chorus" by jazz painter Romare Bearden, 1979-1980.
You can't listen to a painting or see a song. But that doesn't mean there aren't really interesting places where the worlds of jazz and art overlap...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WCPN, KHNS and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 27
Kansas City Jazz (Ep. 7)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Mary Lou Williams, Credit: William Gottlieb
In this hour, we go in search of the storied and sordid roots of the famed Kansas City sound.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, KMUW, WCPN, KHNS and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29
Louis Armstrong (Ep. 4)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Satchmo in 1960.
In this hour, it's a look at the life and music of Louis Armstrong with the good people of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, located in Louis' form...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KMUN, WGBH Radio Boston, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
Jazz's Great Comeback Stories (Ep. 3)
From: Jeff Haas
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
Nina Simone (Ep. 2)
From: Jeff Haas
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
Jazz and Film (Ep. 25)
From: Jeff Haas
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