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WoodSongs 1098: Bee Taylor and Goldpine
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Bee Taylor makes her debut on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Texas songwriter Bee Taylor and raw Americana duo Goldpine.

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KBRW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KJZX-Austin, KMSU and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 30
NL 24-10: Jazz Women of the 1960s, 3/4/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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The 1960s is one of the most talked-about, argued-about, mythologized periods of American history. This edition of Night Lights highlights some wom...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
To Be Somebody: The Hazel Scott Story
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A profile of the pianist, singer, actress, and civil-rights activist, whose music drew on influences from classical to boogie-woogie, and who was t...

Bought by KVCR


  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Joni
From: WFIU
Series: PorchLight with Tom Roznowski
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Turning the spotlight on the music of Joni Mitchell.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
NL 23-40: Jazz Her Way: Nancy Wilson in the 1960s, 9/25/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A survey of the singer's 1960s recordings with Cannonball Adderley, George Shearing, Gerald Wilson, and others.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
NL 23-20: The Carla Bley Songbook, 5/8/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Carla Bley is renowned today for her big-band writing, but it was small-group recordings of her work in the 1960s that introduced her to the jazz w...

  • Added: May 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Jazz Women of the 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring female jazz performers and composers of the 1960s.

Bought by WNMU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KMUN, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 39
Jazz Women of the 1980s*
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.

Bought by KLCC and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz Women of the 1990s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Throughout jazz history the harp has rarely been heard as a soloing or primary instrument, but in the 1950s and 60s Dorothy Ashby, a musician out o...

Bought by WJCT, KRCU Public Radio, WVTF, KLCC, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
FOLK SALAD AIRING 5-8-2022 WOMEN OF SONG
From: SCOTT Aycock
Series: Folk Salad- Certified Organic Music
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Celebrating Oklahoma Women of Song, highlighting 3 important Oklahoma singer/songwriters, who are no longer with us, Gus Hardin, Debbie Campbell, a...

  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
WoodSongs 1033: The Mastersons/Whitmore Sisters and Tammy Rogers & Thomm Jutz
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Tammy Rogers and Thomm Jutz on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, it's roots music triple header as folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes The Mastersons, Whitmore Sisters and...

Bought by KBRW, KENW, WEJP-LP 107.1, WVIK, KUAR and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
NL 22-12: Jazz Women of the 1940s, 3/14/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Trumpeter Billie Rogers, vibraphonist Marjorie Hyams, and other unsung heroines of the World War II era in jazz.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
NL 20-13: Ella '57: Ella Fitzgerald Flies High, 3/23/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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We take a look at Ella Fitzgerald in 1957, one of the singer's busiest and most memorable years on record.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:04
Late Lady: Billie Holiday On Verve In The 1950s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star. ...

Bought by KMUW, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, High Plains Public Radio, WKMS and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
One for Marian: Marian McPartland
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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We’ll hear some McPartland recordings with a special emphasis on her own compositions, as well as excerpts from a 1975 interview in which she talks...

Bought by KLCC and High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2019
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 2
NL 19-13: Jazz Women Of The 1990s, 3/25/2019
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Night Lights' decade-by-decade story of women in jazz continues with Maria Schneider, Abbey Lincoln, Shirley Horn, Cassandra Wilson and more.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
NL 18-13: Joni + Jazz: Joni Mitchell, 3/26/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz interpretations of Mitchell's music, plus the songwriter's own jazz-influenced recordings from the 1970s.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2018
  • Length: 59:03
NL 18-12: One For Marian McPartland, 3/19/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Night Lights celebrates the centennial of jazz pianist and radio host Marian McPartland, with a program emphasizing her own compositions as well as...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:04
NL 18-09: The Fantastic Jazz Harp Of Dorothy Ashby, 2/26/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Throughout jazz history the harp has rarely been heard as a soloing or primary instrument, but in the 1950s and 60s Dorothy Ashby, a musician out o...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Jazz Her Way: Nancy Wilson In The 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Wilson's records blended big-band and small-group elements with pop orchestration and doses of soul that could be both big-city hip and suburban cool.

Bought by KAAD-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMUW, WCPN, WRGY and more


  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
Proving Herself: Melba Liston, Arranger and First Lady of Trombone
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz: An exploration of the path of Melba Liston as she became an arranger/composer and an instrumentalist in the j...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KMUW and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8

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