PRX - Pieces for Topic: Music
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In this hour, it's the legendary story of how a Kansas City kid who didn’t like to practice became the king of bebop.
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNMU-FM, KHNS and more
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 30
You could not find two more opposite musicians forming a partnership: Stephane Grappelli and Django Rienhardt. In the early ‘30s they created the h...
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
The Starr Piano Company opened the doors to their new recording studio in Richmond, Indiana in 1916. The first few years they waxed the standard fa...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 16, 2014
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Composer and lyricist Jerome Kern summed up the life and work of Israel Baline (Irving Berlin) when he said, “Irving Berlin has no place in America...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
In the earliest jazz bands of the 1920s, the baritone and bass saxophones were relegated to the rhythm section, the bass line. But everything bega...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 58:53
Ellis was first a jazz pianist and later jazz vocalist who recorded numerous sides with the Dorsey Brothers, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, and many other...
- Added: Sep 21, 2012
- Length: 58:54
The blues melded with jazz long before the first recordings in the late teens. Although the music was, at least at first, structured on the 8 and 1...
- Added: Jul 31, 2012
- Length: 58:54
It’s Windy Hear! But, in the late 1920s and early ‘40s, much of that wind was coming from the great horns of musicians like Ruben Reeves and Louis...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Jazz Historian Albert McCarthy writes in his book, Big Band Jazz (Exeter Books, NY 1974), “When jazz and dance music began to dominate American pop...
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 58:57
In 1922 composer Harry Warren created his first hit, "Rose of the Rio Grande," with lyrics by Edgar Leslie. From that successful launch came a prod...
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
Think you know music? NPR music critic Tom Moon has found ten artists you probably don't know...but should.
Bought by KLCC, KGLT, and North Country Public Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2009
- Length: 55:16
- Purchases: 3
A collection of handpicked songs exploring the sounds of three prominent members of the mallet family of percussive instruments - Xylophones, Vibes...
- Added: Apr 17, 2008
- Length: 58:55
A collection of handpicked songs from a very wide range of musical styles demonstrating the versatility of the harmonica.
- Added: Sep 07, 2007
- Length: 58:55
A collection of some of the best songs ever written about Memphis, Tennessee's other music city.
- Added: Sep 07, 2007
- Length: 58:52
Weekly eclectic music program: Great coffee songs from a wide variety of musical genres.
- Added: Sep 07, 2007
- Length: 58:55
An hour-long music special on the story of Border Radio. Toe tapping music from hillbilly, western swing, Mexican conjunto and contemporary, rhythm...
Bought by Prairie Public, KMUN, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WTIP, KEOS and more
- Added: Feb 03, 2006
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 14
