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Celebrate Sonny Rollins' 90th Birthday!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sonny Rollins, Credit: john Abbott
We revisit a 2017 conversation with the legendary tenor saxophonist.

Bought by WCNY and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:44
  • Purchases: 2
NL 20-31: Electrifying: Charlie Christian, 7/27/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Music from one of the 20th century's most influential guitarists, heard with Benny Goodman and others.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
Poetic Justice (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state -- one that char...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WMUU-LP, WXDU, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
Poetic Justice (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state -- one that char...

Bought by WSGE, KRDP, WJCT, KVSC, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Poetic Justice (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller (Invisibilia) discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state --...

Bought by KXCV, WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 3
NL 20-25: The Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree, 6/15/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A jazz tribute to Juneteenth, the African-American holiday marking the end of slavery, with music from Paul Robeson and Count Basie, John Coltrane,...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Meet Saxophonist, composer and 2020 NEA Jazz Master Roscoe Mitchell
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Roscoe Mitchell, Credit: Ken Weiss
Music and conversation with NEA Jazz Master Roscoe Mitchell

Bought by WDCB and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Music Matters (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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We all know that teenagers would rather die than hang out with their parents, right? Not so, says Jon Lohman. The Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax,...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCMU Michigan, WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 11
Music Matters (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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We all know that teenagers would rather die than hang out with their parents, right? Not so, says Jon Lohman. The Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax,...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, KRDP, WLIW, WYAP and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Music Matters (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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We all know that teenagers would rather die than hang out with their parents, right? Not so, says Jon Lohman. The Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax,...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 3
NL 20-15: Maiden Voyage: Herbie Hancock In The 1960s, 4/6/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the 1960s Herbie Hancock seemed to be everywhere on the jazz scene, recording both as a leader for Blue Note and as a sideman with Miles Davis a...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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
The unique voice of bassist Reggie Workman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Reggie Workman , Credit: Richard Kohler
Bassist and 2020 NEA Jazz Master Reggie Workman talks about his storied career

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 1
Inaugural Kansas City 18th & Vine Poet Laureate Glenn North
From: New Letters on the Air
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New Letters on the Air features Glenn North, the inaugural Poet Laureate of the 18th and Vine Historic Jazz District. This Cave Canem fellow shares...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Musician's Spotlight -Dirty Dozen Brass Band-Galactic Remix Mspot Part Two - 729
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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To warm up listeners in early December, a remix encore broadcast from the Musician’s Spotlight archives of two great bands that will bring the heat...

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


  • Added: Dec 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 4
Meet Junious Brickhouse Urban Dancer and choreographer,
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Junious Brickhouse, Credit: Michael G. Stewart
According to Junious Brickhouse--Urban dance or Piedmont Blues—it’s all artistic legacy

Bought by KZUM, Harford Community Radio, and WMPG


  • Added: Nov 14, 2019
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
Here's singer/songwriter Crys Matthews
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Crys Matthews
Crys Matthews is a talent whose Americana, country soul, bluesy folk rock creates a style all her own.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
NL 19-40: Our Delight: The Music Of Tadd Dameron, 9/30/2019
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Music of the pianist and composer-arranger who left his stamp on the bebop and hardbop era, as well as an interview with Dameron biographer Paul Co...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promos - Nathan East- 681
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promos
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One of the most respected bass guitarists in popular music, Nathan East is also a producer and writer who has collaborated with an all-star caliber...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2019
  • Length: :45
Topical Race & Weather Blues
From: Media Humboldt
Series: Diddie Wa Diddie
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Blues songs about race relations, floods, hurricanes and fires.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
The Motherless Dollar Quartet’s Residency at the Icehouse in Minneapolis Continues This Monday
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Davu Seru, Credit: Andrea Canter
Davu Seru is a north Minneapolis composer who has been influenced by experiences in Chicago and Ghana, and it all comes out in his music. Davu lead...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Brotherly Love
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry and music honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2019
  • Length: 57:58
NL 19-04: The Benny Golson Songbook, 1/21/2019
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Tenor saxophonist Benny Golson has penned some of the most notable compositions of the modern jazz era, including “Whisper Not,” “Along Came Betty,...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
NL 19-01: Herbie Nichols’ Third World, 12/31/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Herbie Nichols died in obscurity in 1963, but over the past two decades his luminous compositions have made him a celebrated figure in modern jazz....

  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Robin Barnes: Songbird of New Orleans
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Robin Barnes
Robin Barnes was born and raised in the Lower 9th Ward, shuttling between her parents’ and grandparents’ houses and singing the songs they liked to...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 52:00