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Pianist Don Shirley combined classical, jazz, and spiritual influences on the many recordings he made in the 1950s and 60s. A forgotten figure in ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Vibraphonist Gary Burton was still a teenager when he burst onto the 1960s jazz scene, going on to work with Stan Getz and make a number of memorab...
- Added: Jan 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
A look at the early jazz career and subsequent Peanuts success of pianist Vince Guaraldi, including interviews with jazz critic Doug Ramsey, Guaral...
- Added: Dec 02, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Last week I took a trip to Fainting Goat Studios in Bedford, VA to meet indie Americana artist Griffin Haley, studio musician Camry Harris and the ...
- Added: Oct 23, 2022
- Length: 01:00:58
A program about American jazz artists performing in Europe in the late 1940s, including Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and others.
- Added: Oct 17, 2022
- Length: 59:00
From: KBEM
Gypsy Mania, also known as Hot Club Mania shares the bill with the Red Hot Django Peppers 7:30 PM, Sunday October 23 at the Cedar Cultural Center i...
- Added: Oct 05, 2022
- Length: 08:00
In this airing of Folk Salad we will feature an interview with Tulsa singer/songwriter George Barton with Linda Barton. We will also include other...
- Added: Sep 18, 2022
- Length: 58:57
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
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
This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we feature Part 2 of our two-part episode with The Alexander/McLean Project, led by vocalist Dee Alexander and guita...
- Added: May 17, 2022
- Length: 57:01
- Purchases: 2
Celebrating Oklahoma Women of Song, highlighting 3 important Oklahoma singer/songwriters, who are no longer with us, Gus Hardin, Debbie Campbell, a...
- Added: May 15, 2022
- Length: 58:58
This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome the Alexander/McLean Project, led by vocalist Dee Alexander and guitarist John McLean, with Steve Million...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 2
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, it's roots music triple header as folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes The Mastersons, Whitmore Sisters and...
Bought by Angelica Community Radio, KBRW, KENW, WEJP-LP 107.1, WVIK and more
- Added: Apr 06, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 32
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
Celebrating Dorothy Parker!
This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome composer Katie Ernst with her innovative suite, “Little Words”, her musical ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2022
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 3
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
This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we’re going back to our archives to celebrate guitarist Andy Brown and the number three million. Three million dolla...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Jun 29, 2021
- Length: 57:01
- Purchases: 1
Author Sam Stephenson talks with us about the legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith and the ways in which his life intersected with New York City'...
- Added: Jun 10, 2021
- Length: 58:59
Drummer Shelly Manne’s 1950s groups recorded everything from experimental and West Coast jazz to Broadway music and TV themes. We’ll hear selection...
- Added: Jun 06, 2021
- Length: 59:01
This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we’re going back to our archives to welcome the innovative guitarist and composer, Casey Nielsen, with The Lapis Tri...
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 57:02
- Purchases: 2
Longtime jazz and blues producer and radio host Bob Porter passed away in April at the age of 80. On a previous Night Lights show he joined us to ...
- Added: May 02, 2021
- Length: 59:02
In the last years of his life, and no longer with the services of longtime writing partner Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington continued to compose mem...
- Added: Apr 22, 2021
- Length: 59:02
Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi joins us to discuss a vital and often-overlooked period of the trumpeter’s career.
- Added: Feb 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Voice of America DJ Willis Conover helped popularize jazz around the world during the Cold War. We’ll hear some of his broadcasts and speak with hi...
- Added: Dec 09, 2020
- Length: 59:00
Louis Armstrong was a legendary innovative trumpeter, a vocalist who had a profound impact on jazz singing, and a dynamic entertainer—and he got a ...
- Added: Nov 21, 2020
- Length: 59:00
