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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
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...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Night Lights celebrates the holidays with jazz from Fats Waller, Joe Williams, Claude Thornhill, and more.
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 59:02
She began as a blues singer. Then turned to popular song with a jazz flavor. She was a movie star for her next recreation. And, finally, a gospel s...
- Added: Jun 24, 2021
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
Quite a number of jazz musicians who were too young to take part in traditional jazz of the 1920s, joined the Revivalist era of the 1940s. To them ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 18, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Host John Floridis sat down to talk shop with Al Obando from the Garifuna Collective at the 2019 Montana Folk Festival to lean about the unique cul...
Bought by KMXT, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Sep 20, 2019
- Length: 29:04
- Purchases: 4
Revisit the days of Underground FM radio with music from the mid 60s to the mid 70s, all played from original vinyl LPs and singles! In this episod...
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 59:50
- Purchases: 11
Revisit the days of Underground FM radio with music from the mid 60s to the mid 70s, all played from original vinyl LPs and singles! In this episod...
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 59:52
- Purchases: 10
Pianist and bandleader Luis Russell happened to have one of the best bands in the Big Apple by the latter 1920s.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 06, 2019
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with Little Walter, “Honeyboy” Edwards, Muddy Waters, and J....
- Added: Jul 14, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Ruth Brown, one of the biggest R&B singers of the 1950s, who first hit the top of the Billboard charts, this week in 1950.
- Added: Apr 23, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile The Howlin’ Wolf, who made his debut on the Billboard R&B charts in 1951.
- Added: Apr 17, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who first recorded with an electric guitar, this week in 1941.
- Added: Apr 15, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Professor Longhair, who first recorded a beloved Mardi Gras classic, this week in 1949.
- Added: Apr 14, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Henry Thomas, whose two dozen recordings for Vocalion, made in the late 1920s, hark back to a time before the blues.
- Added: Apr 10, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile harmonica ace Junior Wells — who was in the studio laying down some classic tracks for Delmark Records, this week in 1965.
- Added: Apr 08, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Little Richard and Specialty Records owner Art Rupe, who, at first anyway, wasn’t too impressed by Little Richard.
- Added: Apr 06, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile blues piano mystery man, Black Bob — who was in the studio this week with Memphis Minnie, in 1935.
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This program is devoted to the creative composers, vocalists and musicians who were so important in the early years of jazz.
- Added: Mar 01, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
The early years of jazz were filled with talented musicians, but only a few stood out as larger than life personalities with innovative ideas.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 07, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Three short moments celebrating 2017 NEA Jazz Master, Dave Holland.
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Mar 31, 2017
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 11
In this hour, we’ll explore the music of two more giants of the New Orleans diaspora, pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton, who left Louisiana in...
Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCNY, KMUN, WMOT and more
- Added: Mar 10, 2017
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 24
Renowned Irish fiddler Tony DeMarco leads a cast of musicians and dancers from "Green Grass to Bluegrass" in a live performance to celebrate the ho...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WNMU-FM, and WBAA
- Added: Dec 20, 2016
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
The Harmonizing vocals of The Boswell Sisters and The Mills Brothers were inspired by the turn of the century barbershop quartets.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
