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Bandleader Andy Kirk gave up his post office carrier in 1925 to try his hand in music. He showed talent on the saxophone and tuba, but it evolved t...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
A bio of the single best disco artist, who changed performance forever, Sylvester.
- Added: May 26, 2012
- Length: 18:13
With the closure of Storyville in New Orleans, many talented musicians landed in Memphis before making their way to Chicago and New York.
- Added: Jan 18, 2012
- Length: 58:59
New Orleans musician who's work had a profound effect on the early development of jazz.
- Added: Jan 05, 2012
- Length: 58:59
Lady E tells me that some nights when she’s finished singing and returns to her apartment and is having trouble with the zipper on her dress, she’l...
- Added: Oct 15, 2011
- Length: 56:36
Rona Steinberg recalls the time a cancer-stricken Bob Marley came into her hospital and her life.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 22, 2011
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 1
The Colored Musicians Club is one of Buffalo’s oldest music venues. Jazz giants from Count Basie to Billie Holiday played there, but even with the ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 07:24
In the 1970?s, dancer Gail Lyons and drummer Emile Latimer discovered love in Buffalo, New York through West African music. After all these years,...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 1
Each day most of us wave to a friend or gesture in a meeting with colleagues. Dance professor Karen Studd sees patterns and language in all of the...
- Added: Jun 01, 2009
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 2
Perfect for Black History Month (February), this one-hour special tells the story of Duke Ellington's musical "Jump for Joy"
Bought by WVIK, High Plains Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, KSUT, KCSM and more
- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 59:05
- Purchases: 37
Series of programs featuring the music and words of arranger Moses Hogan
- Added: Jan 10, 2007
- Length: 19:24
- Added: Sep 13, 2006
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 10, 2006
- Length: 53:53
- Purchases: 1
A musical exploration of this lyrical and controversial style of jazz
Bought by KMUW, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WDUQ, WILL and more
- Added: Oct 17, 2005
- Length: 29:04
- Purchases: 13
The Ebony Hillbillies prove you don?t have to be white and Southern to play authentic, down home country music...they are hip, urban, and black. A...
Bought by KXOT Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Public Interactive, WKMS, KCUR and more
- Added: Mar 21, 2005
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 8
