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6 works, including BACH: Concerto for 4 Keyboards in A Minor, BWV 1065. I Solisti di Zagreb/Antonio Janigro; Anton Heiller, harpischord/organ.
- Added: May 02, 2024
- Length: 57:01
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
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
A survey of the singer's 1960s recordings with Cannonball Adderley, George Shearing, Gerald Wilson, and others.
- Added: Sep 21, 2023
- Length: 59:01
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
A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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.
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Bought by KMUW, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, High Plains Public Radio, WKMS and more
- Added: Mar 13, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
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.
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 59:00
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
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
Jazz interpretations of Mitchell's music, plus the songwriter's own jazz-influenced recordings from the 1970s.
- Added: Mar 25, 2018
- Length: 59:03
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
