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The Beautiful Healing Power of Music with Palm Beach Symphony CEO David McClymont. We share the rich history of classical music, it’s relevance in ...

Bought by WCNY and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 27:39
  • Purchases: 2
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One of the most acclaimed violinists of her generation, Hilary Hahn returns to Musician’s Spotlight and visits by phone with host John Floridis. Th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2021
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Irving Berlin
Three of the biggest names in 20th century popular music. All of them started their careers before jazz reached north of Kansas City, but years lat...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Fess Williams
Second cousins, you might say. As jazz evolved, it adopted many other musical genres. Vaudeville was a natural. It welcomed the peculiar and experi...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Trio Franor, Credit: Trio Franor
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music by Manuel de Falla, Bizet, Tarrega, Paraguayan jazz composer Juan Manuel Acevedo, JS ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KXIQ , WVIA, WHQR, WKGC and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 61
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SHOW 849 (Air Dates: April 5 - 11, 2021) “Bye Bye Miss American Pie…” you know that song. That’s right, legendary songwriter Don McLean is our gues...

Bought by KNBA, WETS, High Plains Public Radio, WOMR, Blue Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
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Part 2 of 2 spotlighting a 2020 documentary called HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING. Music host Paul Ingles talks about the late singer/so...

Bought by WHRV and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Lionel Hampton
The Blues was never expected to join the British royalty, but in the 1920s, the musical genre morphed and shifted its course. When jazz melded with...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Earl HInes
A commonly used word for someone who played piano. Three of those artists are featured. One from the south, Jelly Roll Morton, East, Duke Ellington...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Red Onion Jazz Babies , Credit: 78 RPM Record
Buzz translates to rumor, and if Chicago was anything in the 1920s jazz and rumor were the glue. There was constant buss around political intrigue,...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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SHOW 829 (Air Dates: March 8 - 14, 2021) This week our guests are Ricky Kej and Lonnie Park. Ricky is an internationally renowned Indian Music Comp...

Bought by KNBA, WETS, KRCB 104.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
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Host John Floridis talks with American Patchwork Quartet Clay group members Ross and Falu Shah by phone in an interview recorded in July, 2020. A...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Sonny Greer
This program features a cross section of musicians … with paraphrases from Bill Crow’s book “Jazz Anecdotes”. Humorous stories about by Louis Armst...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Art Hodes Riverboat Club
Quite a number of jazz musicians who were too young to take part in traditional jazz of the 1920s, joined the Revivalist era of the 1940s. To them ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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SHOW #843 (Air Dates: Feb 22 - 28, 2021) This week our guest is Katie Anne Mitchell. From anthropology graduate student to actor to singer/songwrit...

Bought by KNBA, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WETS, WOMR, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Caption: Don Redman, leader
You’d be hard press to find more enthusiastic musicians who anticipated and relished every beat. McKinney’s Cotton Pickers were a young group who a...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Imelda May on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Ireland native Imelda May plus Canadian fiddler, singer, and stepdancer A...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KDLG, KTRL, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Radio Bristol and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 26
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In the earliest years of jazz, the process of recording wasn’t close to being perfected. Microphones didn’t exist. Vocalists had to belt out their ...

Bought by KVCR and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Lars Vogt
The magical sound of Sharon Kam's clarinet. Violinist Christian Tetzlaff and a piece he's been working on for forty years and still finds astonishi...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:57
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SHOW 820 (Air Dates: Feb 8 - 14, 2021) Today on Art of the Song we explore the music and mission of FlipSyde. Mixing together rap, guitars, politi...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KNBA, WETS, WOMR, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
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This week on Tent Show Radio, living legend, songwriter and singer, Arlo Guthrie. Mr. Guthrie has performed everywhere from Carnegie Hall too, wel...

Bought by Prairie Public, KMSU, KSRQ, KFCF FM, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Sierra Hull on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Tennessee-bred virtuoso mandolinist Sierra Hull plus the eccentric Ameri...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KTRL, Radio Bristol, WEJP-LP 107.1, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 31
Caption: young Sidney Bechet
Soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet is among the giants of early jazz. An equal of Louis Armstrong. Yet, he is not that well remembered. Part of the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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SHOW 839 (Air Dates: Jan 25 - 31, 2021) Over the years, we’ve had the opportunity to interview some pretty amazing artists. Here we dust off a show...

Bought by KNBA, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WETS, High Plains Public Radio, WOMR and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Caption: Henry "Red" Allen
Although the isn’t as well known today, Red Allen was favorably compared with Louis Armstrong in the 1920s and ‘30s. He managed to perform with som...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1