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In the early 1970s trumpeter Freddie Hubbard made a series of records for the CTI label that combined hardbop, funk, modality, and 70s groove.
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 59:01
James McMurtry is a storyteller of the highest order. He is a performer who can guide you to the widest emotional extremes, not just in one concert...
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Mar 14, 2023
- Length: 56:26
- Purchases: 1
Dusty Ray Simmons, the multi-instrumentalist and soul singer-songwriter hailing from Richmond, VA, joins me as my esteemed guest. During our conver...
- Added: Mar 13, 2023
- Length: 59:00
In the 1960s, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter composed a torrent of music for Art Blakey, Miles Davis, and his own albums as a leader on the Blue N...
- Added: Mar 10, 2023
- Length: 59:01
One of the world's most successful music producers got his start as a jazz trumpeter, arranger, and bandleader. We'll hear recordings he made in th...
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 59:03
An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring female jazz performers and composers of the 1960s.
Bought by WNMU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KMUN, WNMU-FM and more
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 39
A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
Wes Montgomery was one of the most influential jazz guitarists of his generation. In recent years newly-discovered live recordings have surfaced, a...
- Added: Feb 23, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Added: Feb 21, 2023
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 1
Exploring tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon’s triumphant return to the United States in the mid-1970s and the last years of his career.
- Added: Feb 19, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Ben Trenerry, and his Rock music project Prince Bishop, has created an emotional and intelligent Karmic map to finding inner peace with Prince Bish...
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Feb 13, 2023
- Length: 56:42
- Purchases: 1
In late 1966 the fiercely individualistic singer and pianist Nina Simone signed with RCA Records and continued her genre-bending explorations of ja...
- Added: Feb 09, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Pianist Don Shirley combined classical, jazz, and spiritual influences on the many recordings he made in the 1950s and 60s. A forgotten figure in ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 59:02
The first in a recurring series of shows explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Again...
- Added: Jan 20, 2023
- Length: 59:02
This hour explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Against Tomorrow, released the same ...
Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.
- Added: Jan 20, 2023
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
In 1969, Manfred Eicher founded what would become one of the world’s most successful and influential jazz record labels. We’ll hear recordings from...
- Added: Jan 19, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Folk Salad pays tribute to some female voices we have been enjoying this past year and years past. You might say it's ladies night on Folk Salad. ...
- Added: Jan 17, 2023
- Length: 58:58
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Grammy winning folk and civil rights legends, an all-woman, African-Am...
Bought by KUPR low power FM, Radio Bristol, GCR (Global Community Radio), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KHNS and more
- Added: Jan 11, 2023
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 49
Vibraphonist Gary Burton was still a teenager when he burst onto the 1960s jazz scene, going on to work with Stan Getz and make a number of memorab...
- Added: Jan 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Not a best of show, but just some records that came out in 2022 that we liked and wanted to share with you. Of course there is a good sprinkling o...
- Added: Jan 09, 2023
- Length: 58:58
Jazz recordings in honor of the civil-rights leader made by James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and others.
- Added: Jan 05, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Night Lights celebrates the holidays with jazz from Fats Waller, Joe Williams, Claude Thornhill, and more.
Bought by KCME, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and WCVE
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 3
Ralph Burns was one of a number of young arrangers who emerged in the aftermath of World War II and the peak of the swing era. This tribute feature...
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 59:05
It is the season Advent, a time of "waiting" and anticipation of hope. All major religions enter into a a form of waiting, this time of year, whet...
- Added: Dec 17, 2022
- Length: 58:58
