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SHOW 928 (Air Dates: Oct 10 - 16, 2022) For our Legend series, our guest this week is Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and country rock pioneer, Chris H...

Bought by KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WCUW 91.3 FM, KHEN-LP, WHRV and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Caption: Over 140 million people worldwide have played World of Warcraft.
We’ll explore some of the sweeping scores that accompany these epic worlds, from World of Warcraft to Final Fantasy XIV to Guild Wars and more.

Bought by WBAA, Vermont Public, WXXI Rochester, WGTE Public Media, WNYE and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Quality Serenaders
Almost completely forgotten today is a little known band based in Los Angeles in 1929 & ’30. Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders recorded a dozen titl...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Arnie Roth conducts the Distant Worlds Philharmonic in a concert of music from Final Fantasy along with video projections of game footage.
We talk with the Grammy-winning conductor and share some of his groundbreaking recordings.

Bought by WBAA, KMXT, Vermont Public, WKAR, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Reb Spike & his Pods of Pepper
A few musicians made the upper echelons of jazz in the 1920s. But, for every one at the top, there are hundreds of talented performers who only rec...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The 2022 game Horizon Forbidden West boasts a soundtrack that runs more than 7 hours.
A huge original soundtrack that breathes life into a lush yet dangerous dystopian landscape.

Bought by Vermont Public, KMXT, WKAR, WGTE Public Media, WNYE and more


  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: Eddie Condon
They were a team in 1928 when times were good, and reunited in 1938 at the peak of the depression. They were known as the Footwarmers and the Windy...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Adrian Rollini
When Adrian Rollini introduced the bass saxophone to the front line instruments, several other reed artists were inspired to follow suit. The big d...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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SHOW 924 (Air Dates: Sept 12 - 18, 2022) Our guest this week on Art of the Song is Nitty Gritty Dirt Band lead singer and founding member, Jeff Han...

Bought by KRZA, WCUW 91.3 FM, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WHRV, KHEN-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Caption: Adelaide Hall
There was no roadmap to success for the Early instrumentalists and vocalists in jazz. They were in untested waters and out on a limb. Nevertheless,...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: KBEM logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Daina de Prez calls herself a piano entertainer, and that’s what she does. Sure, she plays with groups, too, but her main focus is singing and play...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Senter & his Senterpedes
They were called "gaspipe" clarinetists. Their style was very popular in the 1920s. They emphasized peculiar sounds and startling effects, like, sc...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, we’ll take a journey through the enchanting music of Octopath Traveler, a score full of soaring melodies inspired by the soundtracks of ...

Bought by Vermont Public, WKAR, WBAA, WGTE Public Media, WNYE and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Louis Armstrong & Luis Russell
Two of the finest New Orleans musicians … Armstrong and Russell … brought the birthplace of jazz into the “Big Apple” in the 1920s, and heavily inf...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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SHOW 921 (Air Dates: Aug 22 - 28, 2022) Our guest this week on Art of the Song is indie singer/songwriter Brooke Annibale. Brooke’s evocative music...

Bought by KRZA, WCUW 91.3 FM, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KHEN-LP, WHRV and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
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This week, we’ll enjoy the music of the world’s favorite Pocket Monsters: Pokemon! The original titles are full of melodies that bring the collect...

Bought by KECG, WNYE, WBAA, Vermont Public, WKAR and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Hoagy Carmichael
In 1927 Hoagy Carmichael was a law clerk. One day he happened to hear a sidewalk phonograph playing a recording of his song. He immediately decided...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sophia Shorai, Credit: Bernadette Pollard
Sophia Shorai has always sung jazz standards. But her songwriting goes way back in her career, too. The songs she writes are not necessarily jazz, ...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Sophia Sorai, Credit: Bernadette Pollard
Sophia Shorai has always sung jazz standards. But her songwriting goes way back in her career, too. The songs she writes are not necessarily jazz, ...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
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SHOW 920 (Air Dates: August 15 - 21, 2022) Our guest this week on Art of the Song is award-winning folksinger DARIA. For the last two decades, she ...

Bought by KRZA, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WHRV, WETS, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Caption: Bessie Smith
Although she wasn’t the first blues artist to record, she was most certainly an influential trailblazer. Frequently, her recordings were enhanced w...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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SHOW 919 (Air Dates: Aug 8 - 14, 2022) Our guests this week are Seattle-based husband-wife duo Tekla Waterfield and Jeff Fielder. Tekla is a singe...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KHEN-LP, KUGS Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
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Character of action, freedom of spirit characterizes our mood this day. Starting in the collector’s corner, with Monk’s “Brilliant Corners,” worth ...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, WMOT, KRZA, WOUB, KHNS and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Mills Brothers
There were several vocal groups in the 1920s that specialized in three-part harmony, but it was The Boswell Sisters and The Mills Brothers set the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 29, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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As jazz made inroads into popular music, musical producers realized they had to incorporate the new styles into their lavish productions.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1