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In this tuneful 59 minute podcast, 2024 NEA Jazz Master Saxophonist Gary Bartz talks about his life and career, touching on his roots, influences, ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2024
- Length: 59:01
We're revisiting 2017 National Heritage Fellow and Blues Harmonica Player Phil Wiggins who brings it all home in this music-rich conversation.
Bought by Harford Community Radio, WCPN, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Jul 25, 2023
- Length: 29:32
- Purchases: 3
Drummer and 2023 NEA Jazz Master Louis Hayes talks about his long and distinguished career as a musician.
Bought by WDCB, KMUW, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM and more
- Added: Feb 27, 2023
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 6
Saxophonist, cultural activist, educator and 2022 NEA Jazz Master Donald Harrison talks about jazz's rich diversity and its roots in New Orleans' ...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2022
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 4
Percussionist Tootie Heath shares the rhythms of a Jazz Master.
- Added: Apr 11, 2021
- Length: 28:53
- Purchases: 2
It's Sonny Rollins 87th birthday and he sat down with the NEA's Josephine Reed to talk about his life in music.
- Added: Aug 31, 2017
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
"I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play" - Tupac Shakur in 1994. From an unheard interview recorded by Benjamin Svetkey, then a writer for...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVNF, KJZZ, PRX Remix, and KALW
- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 06:15
- Purchases: 5
The Apex Club was raided by federal agents and closed for selling alcohol during Prohibition in 1930. Just before that fateful day, New Orleans nat...
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 2
Lady E tells me that some nights when she’s finished singing and returns to her apartment and is having trouble with the zipper on her dress, she’l...
- Added: Oct 15, 2011
- Length: 56:36