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- Added: Aug 11, 2023
- Length: 12:23
Robbie Robertson, chief writer for the legendary and hugely influential rock group simply called The Band, has passed away at the age of 80. Music ...
Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, WXXI Rochester, KSJE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more
- Added: Aug 11, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
Robbie Robertson, chief writer for the legendary and hugely influential rock group simply called The Band, has passed away at the age of 80. Music ...
Bought by Prairie Public, Morehead State Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KRCB 104.9, WXXI Rochester and more
- Added: Aug 10, 2023
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 29
Trumpeter Lee Morgan and saxophonist Hank Mobley were two leading exemplars of the 1950s and '60s hardbop sound and recorded together on a number ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2023
- Length: 59:00
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas, the WFMT Radio Network and Jon Tolansky present an exclusive documentary memo...
Bought by KENW, Troy Public Radio, WDPR, WQXR, WILL and more
- Added: Aug 01, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 15
Carl Friedrich Abel performed on and wrote for the viola da gamba in a time when its popularity was declining. This week on Harmonia, we’ll explore...
- Added: Jul 28, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Live recordings made at the nightclub in Hermosa Beach, California, featuring Joe Henderson, Elvin Jones, and others.
- Added: Jul 27, 2023
- Length: 59:00
In 1971, Columbia Records signed four of modern jazz's greatest artists. Within two years all four were gone. What happened?
- Added: Jul 23, 2023
- Length: 59:01
In the years following World War II, Black American jazz musicians such as Dexter Gordon, Kenny Clarke, and Bud Powell took up residence in France,...
- Added: Jul 06, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...
- Added: Jul 03, 2023
- Length: 59:01
This week on Harmonia, another nod to the program’s 30th anniversary, with a program inspired by an episode from 1992 featuring the music of Spanis...
- Added: Jul 03, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi joins us to discuss a vital and often-overlooked period of the trumpeter’s career.
- Added: Jun 29, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Night Lights celebrates America’s Independence Day with music from James Reese Europe, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and other c...
- Added: Jun 25, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles continues his talk with filmmaker and author David Leaf about Leaf's 2022 book called "GOD ONLY KNOWS...
Bought by WRVO Public Media, KAAD-LP, KUPR low power FM, North State Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more
- Added: Jun 24, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 8
Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles talks with filmmaker and author David Leaf about Leaf's 2022 book called "GOD ONLY KNOWS: The Story o...
Bought by KAAD-LP, WRVO Public Media, KUPR low power FM, North State Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more
- Added: Jun 15, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
Grab a partner and head to the dance hall! This week on Harmonia, we’re throwing a dance party that spans several centuries. We’ll explore dances t...
- Added: Jun 09, 2023
- Length: 58:59
Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles talks with musician and author John Kruth about Kruth's 2023 book called "LUNACY: The Curious Phenome...
Bought by North State Public Radio, KBBI Alaska, WRVO Public Media, KSJE, KUPR low power FM and more
- Added: Jun 09, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
Ellington kept his orchestra together in a changing economic landscape, continuing to create memorable music and expanding his compositional horizons.
- Added: Jun 08, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Nat King Cole’s short-lived 1956-57 variety show was canceled for lack of advertisers, but it made an invaluable cultural contribution and blazed a...
- Added: Jun 01, 2023
- Length: 58:58
In the last decade of his life Art Blakey continued to mentor new talent in his Jazz Messengers group, helping to elevate musicians such as Wynton ...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Recordings that pianist Bill Evans made as a sideman and as a leader in the year following his bassist Scott La Faro’s death in an automobile accid...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 59:03
Music of the Terre Haute, Indiana, big-band leader whose 1940s orchestra helped pave the way for cool jazz.
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 59:03
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
An overview of the pianist and composer's career--one of the longest-running and most creative in the history of American jazz. We'll hear music fr...
- Added: Apr 27, 2023
- Length: 59:00
For more than 600 years, the Ottoman or Turkish Empire governed much of the Mediterranean and Western Asia. As relations with Christian Europe ebbe...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 59:00
