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A centennial tribute to singer Sarah Vaughan focuses on her early recordings with Billy Eckstine’s big band and as a rising solo star with Charlie ...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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First broadcast in 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program showcasing the best live recordings from acclaimed music acts and enter...

Bought by KMSU, WNMU-FM, WRFA-LP, WDSE, KSJE and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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A deep look inside the process of music discovery.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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Our age-old response to this life on earth: yours, theirs, all of ours.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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A deeper look inside the art of using fewer words to say more.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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How photographic images help us preserve and circulate something as wispy as memory.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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A look at the nature of performance, and its effect on performer and audience alike.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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Songs of and reflections on the house and home.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Celebrating one of the greatest opportunities for human connection.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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A celebration of bands, in story and song.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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https://indianapublicmedia.org/porchlight/note-to-self.php

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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The hours around dawn, reflected upon in story and song.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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One of the greats of early rock 'n' roll, remembered in story and song.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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Remembering some greats who departed before their time.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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Reflections on the summer of 1965 in story and song.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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In 1952, bassist Charles Mingus and drummer Max Roach formed their own record company in an attempt to assert creative and entrepreneural control o...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:48
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First broadcast in 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program showcasing the best live recordings from acclaimed music acts and enter...

Bought by KMSU, WRFA-LP, WNMU-FM, WTIP, WDSE and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
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Pannonica de Koenigswarter, aka Nica or “The Jazz Baroness,” was a friend to Thelonious Monk and other jazz artists and inspired a slew of musical ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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After leaving John Coltrane’s group at the end of 1965, pianist McCoy Tyner made an ambitious run of albums for the Blue Note label in the late 196...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Night Lights takes another long leap back to the year in jazz, featuring music from John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy’s controversial quintet, George R...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
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Music for television shows has often been created or recorded by jazz musicians, including Oliver Nelson, Neal Hefti, Shelly Manne, Vince Guaraldi,...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
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A look at another notable year in the career of jazz giant John Coltrane, including his collaboration with vocalist Johnny Hartman, and newly-disco...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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A program of music from the very first Monterey Jazz Festival. Featured artists include Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Gerry Mullligan, Dave Bru...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Live recordings made at the nightclub in Hermosa Beach, California, featuring Joe Henderson, Elvin Jones, and others.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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In 1971, Columbia Records signed four of modern jazz's greatest artists. Within two years all four were gone. What happened?

  • Added: Jul 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:01