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Napoleon's Charge
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Phil Napoleon
Phil Napoleon is considered a primary pioneer of jazz trumpet, and his playing profoundly affected Red Nichols and Bix Beiderbecke. He was one of t...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
By George part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: George Gershwin
The music of composer, pianist, and painter George Gershwin. This tribute features many of his songs from the 1920s and '30s, and comments of some ...

Bought by Radio New Zealand and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 30, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
From Bessie to Billie
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bessie Smith
The cornerstones for this program: Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday featuring several artists who benefited from the breakthrough recordings of Mami...

Bought by KMUW and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Windy City to the Big Apple: Early Black Big Bands
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Windy City 1920s
When we think of the Big Bands, it’s most often in terms of the Swing Era. Understandable, since those sweet and hot orchestra’s dominated the 1930...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 15, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Belgian Jazz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Charles Remue's New Stompers
When you think of America’s original art form – jazz – the last place you’ll probably think of is Belgium. Yet, they too were swept up in the craze...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 26, 2014
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
Georgia Stomps
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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It’s an understatement to say that Georgia was not known as a mecca for early jazz; nevertheless, there are several quality musicians from the Atla...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Desperately Seeking Steampunk
From: Teresa Chin
Caption: What would Jules Verne do? The Steampunk aesthetic combines elements of victorian fashion, sci-fi, and punk DIY., Credit: Photo by SoulStealer.co.uk
Steampunk is quickly moving from a quirky Victorian sci-fi subculture to a major inspiration for mainstream artists like Panic at the Disco and Rus...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 1
New Sounds of China Episode 3: The Beijing Scene (Beyond Maybe Mars)
From: Peter Vautier
Series: New Sounds of China
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Episode three explores the diversity of Beijing's underground music scene.

Bought by WLRH, WNJR, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 3
New Sounds of China Episode 1: The History of Chinese Alternative Music
From: Peter Vautier
Series: New Sounds of China
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Episode one explores the old sounds that have influenced the new sounds of Chinese alternative music.

Bought by WLRH, KUT, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR -- Filmmaker Vikram Jayanti on the interview 50 years in the making
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Vikram Jayanti, September 10, 2010, San Francisco, CA, Credit: Andrea Chase
Filmmaker Vikram Jayanti on lies, truth, and Hollywood Babylon in his doc, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR

  • Added: Sep 13, 2010
  • Length: 21:01
Mellodrama: the Signature Sound of Progressive Rock
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Director Dianna Dilworth
The Mellotron was the sound of progressive rock and space music in the 1970s. Before digital synthesizers, it was an instrument that played back t...

Bought by KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
An exotic forest of sensual grooves, ambient atmospheres and intoxicating melodies
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Ylang ylang is a flowering tree that grows in South Asia, and on his album, Ylang, Robert Rich has sculpted another exotic forest of sound, full of...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
Schwobians
From: Koji Mori
Caption: Schwob School of Music, Credit: Columbus State University
The Music Major Life...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2010
  • Length: 03:37
Jon Hopkins's Quaint Electronica
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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You may not know Jon Hopkins, but you’ve heard him on albums by Coldplay, Massive Attack, Imogen Heap and Brian Eno. On Coldplay’s Viva La Vida or...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Violinist Anna Schaad's Dream Within a Dream
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Violinist Anna Schaad’s music is steeped in fantasy and inspired by her Navy pilot husband. Though heavily Celtic influenced, she takes an electro...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
English electronic duo plugs in with vintage synthesizers and heads into space
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve of Arc, Credit: Kimberly Haas
English electronic musicians Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy perform in a pair of cockpits of keyboards and gear. They specialize in a sound that has r...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
The Orchestrion: Pat Metheny's One-Man Band
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Acclaimed jazz guitarist Pat Metheny plugs to the Orchestrion, a massive instrument based on the old player piano orchestrations of yore.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Godfather of Ambient Chamber Music
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Harold Budd started out as a jazz drummer in the 1950s, then became a student of Schoenberg style serialism. Against that backdrop, he revolted th...

Bought by KUT and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Three Musicians in Communion With Each Other
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Native flute master R. Carlos Nakai, luthier and guitarist William Eaton, and world percussionist Will Clipman return with an album of intuitive im...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
A Senegalese griot meets a German jazz trumpeter
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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An African griot meets a German jazz trumpeter when Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze talk about their unlikely and serenely beautiful collaboration.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Deep Space and Techno-tribal Worlds of Steve Roach
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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We talk with one of the most influential electronic artists of the last 30 years, from the deep space of his CD "Structures from Silence" to the t...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
Wandering the Psychedelic Galaxy with Gong
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Daevid Allen of Gong
It's been 40 years since Daevid Allen convened his space gypsy rock band Gong which influenced everyone from Ozric Tentacles to Steve Roach. Allen...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Cocteau Twins Guitarist Rides a Carousel of Drifting, Paisley-Dappled Tone Poems
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Guitarist Robin Guthrie
Robin Guthrie's shimmering, ringing guitars, layers of echo and darkly melancholy themes play over trancey rhythm machines

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 25, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
The East-West fusion of Urban Nature
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Urban Nature is the duo of guitarist Todd Boston and Indian percussionist Ramesh Kannan. They’re updating the East-West fusion of John McLaughlin'...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Carmen Rizzo and Huun Huur Tu: Tuvan throat singers meet an electronic mix-master
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Carmen Rizzo
Huun Huur Tu is a band from Tuva specializing in the ancient style of harmonic singing that comes from that region. Their music is combined with th...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1