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6 works, including OFFENBACH: Gaîté Parisienne. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra/André Previn.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 57:02
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6 works, including BACH: Concerto for 3 keyboards in D Minor, BWV 1063 (or 3 violins) . The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock; Trevor Pinnock, harpsi...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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6 works, including OFFENBACH: Gaîté Parisienne. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra/André Previn.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 57:02
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4 works, including SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 5, D 485 (1816) . Moscow Virtuosi/Vladimir Spivakov.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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On this episode, we talked about the book "The Underground is Massive," which charts the foundation and development of Electronic Dance Music (EDM)...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
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On this episode, we looked at the book "Now and Forever," one of the first book-length investigations into the many ways that loops (repeated audio...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Jan 27, 2024
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the new book "The Needle and the Lens," which explores pop songs used in film. So...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 27:32
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode, we talked about the book "Krautrock," a recent addition to the 33 1/3 "Genre" series that explores the history and influence of Ge...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2024
  • Length: 27:34
  • Purchases: 1
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We will not wait to be drafted into jazz radio service, we shall volunteer, and do it gladly. When Quincy Jones recorded for A & M records, the sou...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KMXT, KHNS, WOUB, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
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On this episode, we talked about John Luther Adams and his biography, "Silences So Deep," which focuses on his time living in Alaska between 1978 a...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Dec 30, 2023
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode, we talked about the new Harvey Sachs book "Schoenberg: Why He Matters," which looks at the life and music of a composer who is one...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:39
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode, we talked about ambient and pop music polymath Brian Eno's Diary, which was recently re-published in a special 25th anniversary ed...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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On this episode, we talked about a couple of new books that help to celebrate Pink Floyd's iconic Dark Side of the Moon album as it turns 50 this y...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:06
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about the music of Beck, which is discussed song by song in a new book that you can bor...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Sep 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about composer and multi-instrumentalist Henry Threadgill's new autobiography "Easily S...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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On this episode, we talked about the great new book "On Minimalism," a reassessment of this musical movement full of primary-source documents and r...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:27
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about "Beautiful Dreamer," the first biography of guitarist and composer Bill Frisell, ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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The turntable must first be warmed up, so we start with saxophonist Paul Desmond, flutist Clifford Jordan and singer Dakota Staton. Next, New Moon ...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WMOT, KHNS, WEJP-LP 107.1 and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Trisco Pearson of Force M.D.'s, Credit: Shefik
Acceptance - Force M.D.'s is a vocal group formed in 1981. Trisco Pearson later joined the group. They released a collection of R&B hits throughout...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:29
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Light and lilting we go with all-new releases the first segment, and without intensity for a time. Pianist Roland Tempelaar plays it safe swinging ...

Bought by WMOT, KJZX-Austin, KHNS, KRZA, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 8
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Starting with the best re-release of 2020, listen to bassist Neil Swainson in his only album as leader with trumpeter Woody Shaw. From the late ’90...

Bought by KHNS, KRZA, WMOT, WYAP, WKAR and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 9
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Tonight on The Sound we have Minnesota bluegrass band Barbaro with us to talk about their latest album, “Dressed in Roses”. Dressed in Roses was re...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 53:52
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Another block added to our ever-growing Patchwork Quilt. No special theme ties these works together. Just outstanding performances and compositio...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2020
  • Length: 58:30
Caption: Sonny Turner, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Bill...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 01:19
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Radio show done 12/12/19 with theme of "Stories". Through time it has been a winter tradition to sit around a fire ( ok in California it might be ...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2019
  • Length: 03:00:39