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Over the course of jazz history, it's become a tradition for jazz artists to write musical elegies in memory of fellow musicians that have departed...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 59:04
As Hollywood prepared to adapt George Gershwin’s folk opera to the screen in the late 1950s, jazz artists such as Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and ...
- Added: May 16, 2022
- Length: 59:02
Jazz hustler, vocalese master, and preacher of hip Babs Gonzales gets a tribute, featuring his recordings with Sonny Rollins, trombonist Bennie Gre...
- Added: May 06, 2022
- Length: 59:02
A centennial tribute to the bassist and composer, focusing on recordings he made in the 1950s with poet Langston Hughes and other writers and perfo...
- Added: Apr 17, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Music documentarian Paul Ingles presents an exploration and celebration of the music and often times controversial story of rock legend Jerry Lee L...
- Added: Apr 11, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
In the 1950s and 60s, as the Cold War & the civil-rights movement heated up, the U.S. State Department sent jazz musicians on goodwill tours around...
- Added: Apr 08, 2022
- Length: 58:59
This hard-bitten 1957 movie about a desperate publicity agent and a powerful press maven (played by Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster, respectively) c...
- Added: Apr 01, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Our salute to a pioneer of world-music influences in jazz concludes with a look at his career after moving to New York City at the start of the dec...
- Added: Mar 26, 2022
- Length: 59:01
There’s an antiphon that features in the masses for Easter Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Its words begin: “This is the day the Lord has made,” and e...
- Added: Mar 24, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Music from a new box set of the bandleader’s 1940s and early 50s recordings, along with commentary from set annotator and jazz scholar Jeff Sultanof.
- Added: Mar 18, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Trumpeter Billie Rogers, vibraphonist Marjorie Hyams, and other unsung heroines of the World War II era in jazz.
- Added: Mar 11, 2022
- Length: 59:04
Melba Liston was a pioneering female jazz artist both as a trombonist and as a composer/arranger. We'll trace her career from Gerald Wilson's 1940s...
- Added: Mar 03, 2022
- Length: 59:04
As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...
- Added: Feb 25, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, there was the music of Duke Ellington . Born and raised in Washington, D.C. at the t...
- Added: Feb 20, 2022
- Length: 59:03
- Added: Feb 13, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 10
A music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 1940’s, into ...
Bought by WJCT, KUHF, WABE, WVIA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more
- Added: Feb 02, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 25
Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, Ellington was writing music that celebrated African-American culture, personalities,...
Bought by WJCT, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KTXK and more
- Added: Jan 31, 2022
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 6
Music tributes to African-American figures such as Paul Robeson and Joe Louis from Count Basie, Clifford Jordan, Charles Mingus and others.
- Added: Jan 28, 2022
- Length: 58:59
As the Blue Note label declined throughout the 1970s, one of its most prolific artists continued to make outstanding records with players such as F...
- Added: Jan 24, 2022
- Length: 59:02
HOUR 2 of 2. GEORGE HARRISON – BEST YEAR EVER celebrates two landmark events that rolled out from George Harrison in 197. In the first hour (alread...
Bought by WRVO Public Media, KSJE, and KUHF
- Added: Jan 17, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
In 1986 Miles Davis began what would prove to be his final run of recordings, working with new collaborators and making some surprising sideman app...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 58:59
HOUR 1 of 2. GEORGE HARRISON – BEST YEAR EVER celebrates two landmark events that rolled out from George Harrison in 1971. In this first hour, it...
Bought by WRVO Public Media, WHRV, KSJE, and KUHF
- Added: Jan 10, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
An hour-long jazz special:
It was a year of raised hopes and devastating tragedy, and the world of jazz continued to reflect both the growing uneas...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WWNO, WRGY, Troy Public Radio, KAAD-LP and more
- Added: Jan 02, 2022
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 24
It was a year of raised hopes and devastating tragedy, and the world of jazz continued to reflect both the growing unease and the youthful vitality...
- Added: Jan 02, 2022
- Length: 59:01
A celebration of the iconic drummer, featuring the music of his big bands and small groups, as well as some of his vocal recordings and excerpts fr...
- Added: Dec 31, 2021
- Length: 59:02
