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It’s a challenge to be a full-time jazz musician. But challenging or not, that’s what Joel Shapira does. He does it by becoming expert at many phas...
- Added: May 01, 2016
- Length: 08:01
The local tabla player Marcus Wise looks for opportunities to work with San Francisco sarod player Bruce Hamm. This weekend the two play two concer...
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Beth Harrington talks strong women, powerful music, and Johnny Cash descending from heaven.
- Added: Apr 22, 2016
- Length: 23:55
Jazz Central Studios is a nonprofit organization supporting the Twin Cities jazz community. Its Fundraiser is Saturday April 30, and artists are co...
- Added: Apr 13, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Jim Falbo has a base in classical guitar, but he is a lover of many music styles. In advance of his Studio Z show in Saint Paul this Friday night, ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2016
- Length: 05:00
The Southside Aces is a Minneapolis-based New Orleans-style Jazz group playing uncompromised traditional Jazz. They play it the old way, but when a...
- Added: Apr 07, 2016
- Length: 09:10
Tammy Bobrowsky speaks with Dr. Beverly Everett of the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra about "A Walk with Peter and Prokofiev" with guest violinist Dr. ...
- Added: Apr 04, 2016
- Length: 15:12
Jazz is a tough world, and it takes perseverance. But sticking together has its rewards, and a case in point is the Atlantis Quartet, slowly but su...
- Added: Feb 21, 2016
- Length: 06:38
The Century jazz Ensemble is a group of community members who just can’t enough of big band playing, and as a result the whole community benefits. ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 07:34
The Century Jazz Ensemble is excited to play its biggest bash of the year this weekend. They’ll be playing the highlights from its repertoire, and ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Scott Mateo Davies is a career ethnic musician, with great interests in certain styles of the Spanish world. Recently he told Phil Nusbaum abiut se...
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 05:08
Singing shaped notes is a long American tradition of singing, mostly based on Christian scriptures. As a folk tradition, it evolves with reference ...
Bought by KSRQ and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jun 21, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 2
In the old days of the northern Minnesota and Wisconsin lumber camps, many of the shanty boys had emigrated from Ireland. Of course, they brought t...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 22, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
John Pirozzi talks baby steps, insatiable thirst, and the miracle of vinyl.
- Added: May 07, 2015
- Length: 25:37
Legendary bass player Carol Kaye, one of the top session musicians of the 60s and 70s and the only woman in this elite group, recalls recording wit...
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Apr 30, 2015
- Length: 28:16
- Purchases: 1
Orkestar Bez Ime, Bulgarian for orchestra with out a name, or OBI for short, has been performing in our town and more widely for well over a decade...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 22, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Sherry Minnick has sung many styles of music in her life. In the last few decades she has focused on great traditional songs, many of them very old...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 02, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
The University of Minnesota Jazz Festival is a great event in scholastic jazz. It’s where high school kids make college choices, and where the whol...
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 05:00
The Twin Cities Jewish Chorale was formed six years ago to provide opportunities to sing types of Jewish music other than that which is sung in syn...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 15, 2015
- Length: 04:56
- Purchases: 1
When was the last time there was a local group specializing in Brazilian choros? Maybe never. But Choro Borealis has been playing for a few years,...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 06, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
This Saturday night, the jazz community will be toasting itself, as the Twin Cities Jazz Sampler CD has it’s release party. The CD contains work by...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 11, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Making It Work Radio Season 1, Episode 1 with Scott Larson - Web Developer and Jazz Trombonist
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 14:29
Twin Cities Weekend is a five minute feature that keeps listeners up to date on what's happening the following weekend. Artist interviews and music...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Shapenote and the Sacred Harp songbook are still allowing people to share a musical experience until this day. Learn more about this tradition from...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Oct 02, 2014
- Length: 18:00
- Purchases: 1
Jack Chuter collected submissions of self-portraits in audio for a compilation called, livingvoid. The compilation features 80 one-minute tracks by...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Oct 02, 2014
- Length: 13:19
- Purchases: 1
