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Mark Stryker, author of the new book Jazz From Detroit, joins us again to discuss the city’s jazz legacy.
- Added: Apr 17, 2023
- Length: 59:01
On this MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE episode, it's the second of a two-part edition from our occasional series TALK MUSIC WITH ME. We dig back a few deca...
Bought by KUPR low power FM, WRVO Public Media, KUHF, and KSJE
- Added: Apr 07, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Bloomington native and longtime Detroit Free Press music writer Mark Stryker joins us to talk about his new book Jazz From Detroit and the musician...
- Added: Apr 06, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Dakota Dave hull is known for his finger-style guitar playing. But on his new CD, Better Late Than Never, Dave explores the guitar – banjo, an inst...
- Added: Apr 04, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: First of a two-part podcast with violinist and NEA Jazz Master Regina Carter
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Mar 28, 2023
- Length: 29:05
- Purchases: 1
The OK Factor is ten years old and to celebrate, it has issued a new CD called OKX. Now, as in the beginning, the OK Factor touches multiple musica...
- Added: Mar 24, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Drummer and 2023 NEA Jazz Master Louis Hayes talks about his long and distinguished career as a musician.
Bought by WDCB, KMUW, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM and more
- Added: Feb 27, 2023
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 6
Guitarist John Penny Is in touch with many jazz styles, and he uses many as sources for his new compositions. Also, when John performs, he offers i...
- Added: Feb 12, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Ginger Commodore and Kendra Glenn are Twin Cities singers who hold Anita Baker as an important singing reference point. And Ginger and Kendra prese...
- Added: Feb 03, 2023
- Length: 08:00
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
The Red Hot Django Peppers has a new CD and is featuring it at all shows. The group plays music called jazz manouche or Hot Club jazz, and pulls mu...
- Added: Jan 27, 2023
- Length: 08:00
When Charmin Michelle and Joel Shapira perform, it’s more than a singer with a guitarist. It’s an interweaving of musical ideas. Though both Charmi...
- Added: Jan 25, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Singer songwriter collaborators Nick Spear and Susan O'Dea, together known as Big Sky City Lights join host John Floridis to discuss the origins of...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 17, 2023
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 2
Turn Turn Turn is Barb Brynstad, Savannah Smith and Adam Levy. The trio’s new CD is called New Rays From An Old Sun, and showcases solo and 3-part ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Turn Turn Turn is Barb Brynstad, Savannah Smith and Adam Levy. The trio’s new CD is called New Rays From An Old Sun, and showcases solo and 3-part ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Music and social movements have historically gone hand in hand. Folk music played a unifying role for the labor movements in the United States. Mus...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA and more
- Added: Jan 12, 2023
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 9
Music and social movements have historically gone hand in hand. Folk music played a unifying role for the labor movements in the United States. Mus...
- Added: Jan 12, 2023
- Length: 58:58
State Park Manager Bobby Fulcher has spent 40 years uncovering the local culture of the Tennessee Cumberlands.
- Added: Jan 10, 2023
- Length: 29:01
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
From: KBEM
Cumar means confluence in Irish Gaelic, and Cumar is also the name of a Twin Cities group that combines African and Irish Music and Dance. The grou...
- Added: Jan 09, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Lila Ammons has always been interested in stylings from the history of jazz. On her trio’s show this Wednesday, January 11 at the Prior lake librar...
- Added: Jan 05, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Acclaimed Irish American multi instrumentalist and composer Seamus Egan returns to Musician's Spotlight to talk about his most recent recording pro...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP
- Added: Dec 14, 2022
- Length: 59:16
- Purchases: 2
Hill Country Blues Musician, Songwriter and 2021 National Heritage Fellow Cedric Burnside talks about bringing his musical roots to the 21st century.
Bought by WSLR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMUN, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more
- Added: Dec 14, 2022
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 8
Composer, conductor, and commentator Rob Kapilow takes us on a musical journey through Leonard Bernstein’s Broadway career.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMPG, WDCB, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KZUM
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 5
Daniel Volovets is a local guitarist who composes and also re-imagines the work of others. When Daniel talked to Phil Nusbaum, Daniel first address...
- Added: Dec 11, 2022
- Length: 08:00
