PRX - Pieces for Topic: Music

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

20 results


String Is The Thing
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
Piece image
Rock'n'roll era records featuring strings!

  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:55:33
60th Anniversary - The Beatles - February 9, 1964
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
Piece image
60th anniversary of The Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show!

  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 01:56:22
Songs of Earth
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
Piece image
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
Two Hits, One Song, Number 1, Volume 2
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
Piece image
Top 40 hits twice with one version peaking at #1!

  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 01:55:30
B.B.'s Blues: A B.B. King Appreciation (HOUR 2) - Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase #73
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Piece image
Music host Paul Ingles guides listeners through HOUR 2 of a two-hour musical tour of both famous and more obscure King masterworks that span his ne...

Bought by North State Public Radio, KUHF, KUPR low power FM, RadioFreePalmer, and KSJE


  • Added: Jun 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
Hour 35: Big Bands of the 1950s
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
Piece image
Tenorist Paul Gonzalvez electrified the crowd with 27 blues choruses on "Diminuendo in Blue and Crescendo in Blue" with Duke Ellington at Newport 1...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, WCNY, KMUN, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 28: The Genius of Modern Music - Thelonious Monk on Blue Note
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
Piece image
In 1940, Minton's Playhouse on West 118th Street hired drummer Kenny Clarke as a bandleader. For the house band, Clarke hired trumpeter Joe Guy, ba...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, WCNY, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
The Emergence of Linda Ronstadt
From: Paul Ingles
Piece image
The remarkable and varied performing career of Linda Ronstadt is explored by a panel of her friends, music writers, musicians and fans. Plus archi...

Bought by KNCT FM, KSJE, Prairie Public, KSUT, WYSO and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 20
Hour 27: Un Poco Loco - The Intensity of Bud Powell
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
Piece image
Mentored by Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell became the first great piano innovator of bebop. “It would be hard to overstate Powell’s impact. His ingeni...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, WCNY, KMUN, KRPS and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 20
Hour 26: That Dizzy Cat - Dizzy Gillespie
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
Piece image
Dizzy Gillespie grew up professionally playing in the big bands of Teddy Hill, Cab Calloway, Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine and writing for Woody He...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, RadioStPete Florida, WCNY, KMUN and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 22: Bebop Big Bands - Earl Hines, Billy Eckstine, Woody Herman, Claude Thornhill
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
Piece image
Although Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Woody Herman soldiered on, mostly keeping bands on the road into the 1970s (Ellington) and 1980s (Basie an...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, RadioStPete Florida, WCNY, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 14: Beyond Category - Duke Ellington in the 1930s
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
Piece image
In the last hour, we heard Count Basie emerge as an exciting new voice from Kansas City. In this hour, we return to New York to follow Duke Ellingt...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, KENW, WCNY, KMUN and more


  • Added: May 26, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 13: Count Basie - Dueling Tenors and the Great American Rhythm Section
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
Piece image
In the eleventh hour of Jazz at 100, we followed Count Basie through the Benny Moten Band in Kansas City and heard his first recordings as a leader...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, RadioStPete Florida, WCNY, KMUN and more


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 10: Birth of the Big Bands
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
Piece image
In the last hour, we listened to the pioneering jazz orchestra of Duke Ellington. Large jazz ensembles, such as Ellington’s, soon to be known as “B...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, WCNY, KMUN, WMOT and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 8: Bix and the Boys
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
Piece image
In this hour we will listen to Bix Beiderbecke's music often in the company of C-melody saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer. We’ll also listen to several...

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, WCNY, KMUN and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 24
Hour 6: Up in Harlem – Stride
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
Piece image
In this hour we’ll stick with New York, but focus in on the piano music of Harlem – “Stride.” We are joined in this hour by Art Wheeler, pianist, p...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, WCNY, KMUN, WMOT and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 5: Up in Harlem – The Bands
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
Piece image
Now we move to the other emerging center of the music, New York. While New York hosted small combos similar to Chicago, it also grew a number of si...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WCNY, KMUN, WMOT, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 23
The Colors of Claude Debussy - 150th Birthday Celebration
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Caption: (L to R) Kenneth Radnofsky; Marc-André Hamelin; Richard Stoltzman , Credit: Melinda Gordon
Classical New England celebrates the revolutionary French composer, with pianist Marc-André Hamelin, clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, saxophonist Ken...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:31
  • Purchases: 3
The Beatles Greatest Single Ever: Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane
From: Paul Ingles
Piece image
Musicians, writers and Beatle fans weigh in on what some critics call the best pop/rock single ever: Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, PRX Remix, KSUT, KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2007
  • Length: 19:33
  • Purchases: 6
Two's Company...Jazz Sessions
From: Gano and Beverly Evans
Piece image
Jazz In The Mainstream : Straight-Ahead & 'Right Down the MIddle'

Bought by KUNR


  • Added: Mar 15, 2007
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1