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Final recordings of jazz greats such as Stan Getz and Billie Holiday.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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From 1977 to 1985 Chicago’s small Bee Hive label released a wealth of hardbop and straight ahead jazz by Clifford Jordan, Sal Salvador, Johnny Hart...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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In 1957 tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins continued the impressive streak of recordings that he'd begun since returning to the jazz scene in 1955. We...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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A program featuring music from the small groups within the larger orchestras of Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodm...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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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
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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
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In the autumn of 1960 saxophonist John Coltrane played his final gigs with Miles Davis. Davis spent the next three years searching for a new lineup...

  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 59:03
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Another in our ongoing series of musical tributes to jazz artists who have passed.

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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A celebration of the whirlwind of early music produced by Richard Penniman, LITTLE RICHARD, who passed away Saturday, May 9, 2020 at the age of 87....

Bought by WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio, WGUC/ WVXU, KUPR low power FM, KSJE and more


  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Music documentarian Paul Ingles presents Hour 2 or a 2-hour exploration and celebration of the music of rock legend Janis Joplin featuring author H...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio, KUHF, KUPR low power FM, and KSJE


  • Added: May 05, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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At the dawn of the 1960s saxophonist Ornette Coleman shook the jazz world with his revolutionary approach to music. This program features some of t...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:03
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Music documentarian Paul Ingles presents Hour 1 or a 2-hour exploration and celebration of the music of rock legend Janis Joplin featuring author H...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio, KUHF, KUPR low power FM, and KSJE


  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Alto saxophonist Lee Konitz was a longtime master of melodic improvisation who played a part in some of jazz's most momentous acts of the 1950s and...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Anita O’Day was a dynamic and independent singer from the moment she burst onto the big-band scene in the 1940s. We’ll hear her with Gene Krupa, S...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Hour #1 of a 2-Hour documentary music special spotlighting the early career and on-going musical journey of the beloved songwriter and performer Jo...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KSJE, and KUHF


  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
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The third of 3 parts of a program exploring and celebrating the early and on-going career of singer/songwriting legend James Taylor. Musicians, mus...

Bought by KUPR low power FM and KSJE


  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
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The second of 3 parts of a program exploring and celebrating the early and on-going career of singer/songwriting legend James Taylor. Musicians, m...

Bought by KFSK, KUPR low power FM, and KSJE


  • Added: Mar 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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The first of 3 parts of a program exploring and celebrating the early and on-going career of singer/songwriting legend James Taylor. Musicians, mu...

Bought by KFSK, KUPR low power FM, and KSJE


  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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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. ...

Bought by KMUW, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, High Plains Public Radio, WKMS and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Third of 3 hours spotlighting many of the jazz musicians with ties to New Mexico.

Bought by KSJE, KUPR low power FM, and KSJE


  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Saxophonist Jimmy Heath spent much of the 1950s off of the jazz scene, but when he returned, he made a string of albums for the Riverside label tha...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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With the centennial of Prohibition at hand, we dive into the impact of the 18th Amendment on the emerging jazz scene of the 1920s with historian Mi...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Night Lights’ highly subjective annual review of the year’s most compelling reissues and historical discoveries, including music from Nat King Cole...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Night Lights celebrates the holiday season with from Paul Bley, Duke Ellington, Wes Montgomery, June Christy, and more.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
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In the 1960s, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, and some other jazz artists began to write religious or so-called “sacred jazz,” to be performed i...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2019
  • Length: 59:00