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Jazz in Europe
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sam Wooding
The introduction of jazz to European society before the 1920s is a complex story. While it was met with both enthusiasm and resistance, its influen...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Caravan (6/11/23)
From: Julian Booker
Series: Culture Caravan
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An encore presentation of our 1/1/23 episode featuring a look back at the second half of 2022 in international releases including music by Syria's ...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
WoodSongs 1055: George Winston and Cutter Elliott
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: George Winston returns to the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes legendary pianist George Winston plus traditional county artist Cutter El...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 43
Three of the Best
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, and Ben Webster. Each left an indelible mark on jazz, with their distinct styles and contributions to the developmen...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Bite of the Big Apple
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Back Room, NYC
It was one of the most infamous times in the history of New York. The city became the hub of a new emerging music: jazz, and the Big Apple was the ...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lori Dokken Leads a Great Say Gay All Day Cabaret Cast into Crooner’s June 11
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Lori Dokken , Credit: Jennifer Bong
Lori Dokken is not only for her singing, playing and arranging, but for curating musical events. Her next one is called the Say Gay All Day Cabaret...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Chicago Rarities
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lovie Austin
When the New Orleans community of Storyville was shuttered in 1917, musicians began traveling north to find work. No one could have been prepared f...

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  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Caravan (5/28/23)
From: Julian Booker
Series: Culture Caravan
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Featuring music from Bosnia's Damir Imamovic, a long-out-of-print Nigerian release by The Good Samaritans, the new release from Canadian Pysch-Rock...

  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
WoodSongs 1075: Abe Partridge and The Goodwin Brothers
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Abe Partridge returns to the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Mobile, Alabama folk songwriter Abe Partridge plus the Appalachian power ...

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  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 37
AG 23-25: Stevie Wonder In The 1960s, 6/19/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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Before his classic period in the 1970s, “Little” Stevie Wonder was a teenager trying to find his sound. We explore the highs and lows of his first ...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
The Musical Review
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Paul Robeson
At the turn of the century, 1900, entertainment promoters discovered the value of staging musical reviews for introducing musical scores. In order ...

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  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Caravan (5/14/23)
From: Julian Booker
Series: Culture Caravan
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Featuring music from Ivory Coast singer/songwriter Peter One, the new Bela Fleck / Zakir Hussain / Edgar Meyer / Rakesh Chaurasia collaboration, So...

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  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Caravan (5/7/23)
From: Julian Booker
Series: Culture Caravan
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Featuring music from a new re-issue of Nigerian musician Remi Kabaka's classic 'Son of Africa' album, the new album by Brazilian singer-songwriter ...

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  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Jam Session
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Natty Dominique
The Jam Session: It’s the proving ground for a musician. That’s where you test your chops. Your creativity. For 1920s jazz performers, these sessio...

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  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
WoodSongs 1073: Mark & Maggie O’Connor
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
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On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Grammy winning folk duo Mark & Maggie O’Connor.

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  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 36
Edison High School Jazz Band teams with The Good The Bad and the Funky in Big Spring Show
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Lesley Earles, Credit: Paige Haggerty
Edison High School Jazz Band directed by Lesley Earles teams with Funk band The Good The Bad and the Funky for a 7PM performance at Edison on Tuesd...

  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Satchmo & Duke
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Armstrong & Ellington
They could not have been more opposite in their approach to jazz. Yet, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington had identical goals. Provide the best mus...

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  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Syncopated Ladies
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Valida Snow
Women have made vast contributions to the history of early jazz. Not only as vocalists, but as musicians, bandleaders, composers and lyricists. Unf...

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  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Culture Caravan (4/23/23)
From: Julian Booker
Series: Culture Caravan
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Featuring music from Puerto Rico's Plena Libre, Mexico's Rodrigo y Gabriela, Singapore's Motifs & more!

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
They Played 'till Dawn
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1929 House Rent party
Harlem Stride piano, boogie and skiffle were all created by the house rent party. Hosts opened up their apartments for a night, charging a fee to g...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Brass Lassie Adds New Wrinkles to its Celtic Music Mix Next This Tuesday at the Parkway in Minneapolis
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Brass Lassie, Credit: Gary Rue
Brass Lassie adds horn arrangements to the traditional mix of fiddles, flutes and concertinas. The group keeps on evolving, added repertoire learne...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Culture Caravan (4/16/23)
From: Julian Booker
Series: Culture Caravan
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Featuring music from Mexico's Son Rompe Pera, deep '70s Funk from Ghana by Kelenkye Band, music from the forthcoming album by Mali's Fatoumata Diaw...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Poetic Notions
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Irving Berlin
Tin Pan Alley songsters were quick to pick up on the popularity of jazz in the 1920s. And, the lyricists, like Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen and Hoag...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Caravan (4/9/23)
From: Julian Booker
Series: Culture Caravan
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Featuring music by Munich's Karl Hector & the Malcouns, London's Los Bitchos, Japan's CHAI & more!

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Storyville
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Storyville
At the edge of the New Orleans French Quarter at the turn of the twentieth century Storyville kick started jazz. There are a couple of reasons for ...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1