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This week on Harmonia, we’ll explore medieval and Renaissance songs and dances collected by 18th century “early music” aficionados in Britain. Plus...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 59:01
Rock'n'roll era records featuring strings!
- Added: Mar 19, 2024
- Length: 01:55:33
60th anniversary of The Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show!
- Added: Feb 07, 2024
- Length: 01:56:22
Saxophonist Charlie Parker is renowned for his small-group recordings, but he also was captured a number of times in large-ensemble settings. This ...
- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 59:00
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the book "Songs of Earth," which is an updated version of song collector/folklori...
- Added: May 13, 2023
- Length: 27:30
Top 40 hits twice with one version peaking at #1!
- Added: Nov 17, 2022
- Length: 01:55:30
Recordings that saxophonist John Coltrane made with Duke Ellington, Eric Dolphy, and the rhythm section of McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jo...
- Added: Sep 13, 2022
- Length: 59:01
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features musical revisions: works by one composer than have been changed, adapted, completed, or rev...
Bought by KXIQ , WVIA, KWAX, RadioFreePalmer, WHQR and more
- Added: Mar 04, 2020
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 52
So far, we have broadcast ninety-nine one-hour programs to tell the story of the first 100 years of recorded jazz. We have heard the creative work ...
- Added: Feb 01, 2019
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 17
This is the last of a series of five programs featuring jazz since 1990, presented as a single selection for each year to reflect trends, career hi...
- Added: Jan 25, 2019
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 17
This is the 98th of 100 programs in the Jazz at 100 series. The programs have chronologically followed the history of recorded jazz and, as we appr...
- Added: Jan 18, 2019
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 16
This is the 97th of 100 programs in the Jazz at 100 series. We move now into the 21st century, presenting music from less than twenty years ago. Wh...
- Added: Jan 11, 2019
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 18
This is the 96th of 100 programs in the Jazz at 100 series. As we present more recent music, we face the historian’s dilemma - what performances wi...
- Added: Jan 03, 2019
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 16
This is the 95th of 100 programs in the Jazz at 100 series. For 94 programs have moved on a roughly chronological path through the history of 100 y...
Bought by KENW, KRPS, KENW, WCNY, RadioStPete Florida and more
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 15
Never far from the pulse of jazz innovation, New York in the 1980s incubated what has become known as the “downtown scene.” Radically multi-stylist...
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 15
Ironically, the record label that most consistently offered an outlet for the American jazz avant-garde in the 1980s was the Italian Black Saint / ...
- Added: Dec 12, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 15
Perhaps no jazz musician recorded a more varied output in more diverse setting in the 1980s than tenor saxophone and bass clarinet player David Mur...
- Added: Nov 29, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 18
In the 1980s, the avant-garde, although still home to many fine free jazz players, increasingly adopted an ecumenical approach to historical styles...
- Added: Nov 20, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 17
As the 1970s came to a close, many musicians searching for alternatives to jazz-rock fusion or free jazz found a home in straight-ahead acoustic ja...
- Added: Nov 15, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 17
Perfectly timed to reinforce the value of acoustic mainstream jazz and provide an alternative to both fusion and free jazz, Art Pepper, Dexter Gord...
- Added: Nov 08, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 17
Jazz-rock fusion was a powerful force in the music in the early seventies, but noticeably began to run out of steam mid-decade. European influences...
- Added: Nov 02, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 16
Previously in this series we have surveyed record labels as representative of the jazz trends in their times – for example bebop on Dial in the 40s...
- Added: Oct 25, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 15
By 1970, Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul were recognized as two of the finest hard bop composers and players having contributed the full range of the...
- Added: Oct 18, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 17
Chick Corea began recording as a sideman for artists like Mongo Santamaria, Blue Mitchell, Herbie Mann and Cal Tjader in 1962. In 1966, his began t...
- Added: Oct 12, 2018
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 19
