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Long a troubled star in the mid-20th century jazz world, at the end of his life saxophonist Stan Getz found peace and made some of his finest recor...
- Added: Sep 26, 2022
- Length: 59:01
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Bought by Royalton Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFiT Melbourne 89.5 FM, KHNS, KRZA and more
- Added: Sep 25, 2022
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 19
An extended trailer to the upcoming public radio documentary, produced by Paul Ingles, on the early emergence and on-going stellar career of musici...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 09:37
- Purchases: 1
Featuring recorded performances from the 1966 Monterey Festival by Ellis, Sete, Lloyd and others, including Cannonball Adderley, Randy Weston, and ...
- Added: Sep 08, 2022
- Length: 59:00
In the mid-1970s, at the peak of her commercial success, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell took her music in a jazz-influenced direction, working wit...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Jazz for the Labor Day holiday, with special guest jazz historian Ted Gioia (author of the book WORK SONGS). Featured artists include Duke Ellingt...
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WRGY, KBBI Alaska and more
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 40
In 1943, Duke Ellington debuted a landmark 43-minute musical portrayal of the African-American experience at Carnegie Hall. We'll hear music from i...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KMUW, WVIA, Radio Catskill and more
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 20
In January 1943, bandleader and composer Duke Ellington took his orchestra into Carnegie Hall for the first time and chose to make his debut with a...
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:03
A centennial salute to talk-show host and jazz advocate Steve Allen, who also played piano and wrote numerous songs such as “This Could Be the Star...
- Added: Aug 19, 2022
- Length: 59:00
In the 1950s the young French Algerian pianist Martial Solal emerged on the European jazz scene, playing with Sidney Bechet, Lucky Thompson, and Dj...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 59:00
A profile of the unsung saxophonist Percy France, whose playing displayed what jazz writer Sascha Feinstein called “an irresistible combination of ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Throughout jazz history the harp has rarely been heard as a soloing or primary instrument, but in the 1950s and 60s Dorothy Ashby, a musician out o...
- Added: Jul 27, 2022
- Length: 59:01
In 1970 trumpeter Miles Davis released Bitches Brew, a landmark album that melded jazz, rock, and other elements into a sound that came to be known...
- Added: Jul 21, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Added: Jul 10, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 10
Jaco Pastorius transformed the sound of the bass in jazz during his relatively brief career as both a leader and a member of Weather Report. Bassis...
- Added: Jul 06, 2022
- Length: 59:03
A tour of the city’s 20th-century jazz legacy.
- Added: Jul 05, 2022
- Length: 59:03
This week on Harmonia, we’ll explore secular song and quirky instrumental music of the fifteenth-century Flemish composer Alexander Agricola. Plus,...
- Added: Jun 30, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Chiaroscuro is a technique in visual art that tells vivid stories through sharp contrasts of light and dark. This week on Harmonia, we’ll uncover m...
- Added: Jun 30, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Stylus fantasticus - the very words bring wild, swirling, colorful images leaping into the imagination! This week on Harmonia, we’ll explore this e...
- Added: Jun 30, 2022
- Length: 59:02
Music of the pianist and composer-arranger who left his stamp on the bebop and hardbop era, as well as an interview with Dameron biographer Paul Co...
- Added: Jun 19, 2022
- Length: 59:02
Known for his theme for “Mission: Impossible” and other TV and movie scores, Schifrin forged his career in the late 1950s and early 60s world of ja...
- Added: Jun 07, 2022
- Length: 59:01
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Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, KDUR, KRSC, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Jun 05, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 10
Reissued studio recordings and live performances from jazz artist Eric Dolphy’s penultimate year.
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 59:00
On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we recognize America's Memorial Day with “Honor, Courage…Commitment” by Stephen Melillo, “When Honor Whispers and...
Bought by KCUR, WNMU-FM, WQCS, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMFA and more
- Added: May 25, 2022
- Length: 59:31
- Purchases: 11
Birdland was known as “the jazz corner of the world,” and from 1949 to 1965 it played host to some of the greatest names on the modern jazz scene.
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 59:00
