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Episode 323: Kena: Bridge of Spirits
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
Caption: Many artists collaborated to create the soundtrack to Kena: Bridge of Spirits, including composer Jason Gallaty and the traditional Balinese orchestra Gamelan Çudamani.
Hear Kena: Bridge of Spirits' atmospheric and emotional original score.

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


  • Added: Jan 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Lost Chords part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bunny Berigan
The first glimmer that there was something new in the world of music became apparent in the deep south. It was long before Louis Armstrong and Bix ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Beth Hart
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 940 (Air Dates: Jan 2 - 8, 2023) Our guest this week on Art of the Song is Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter, Beth Hart. She is a chart-toppi...

Bought by KRZA, WHRV, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRCB 104.9, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Mannheim Steamroller
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 939 (Air Dates: Dec 29, 2022 - Jan 1, 2023) Our guest this week on Art of the Song is the Grammy Award winning founder of Mannheim Steamroller...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KHEN-LP, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Christmas with the Club
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Christmas Wish
Despite being one hundred years old, this is a very similar scene to what we experience today. In her research, author Betty Owens discovered that ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Lost Chords part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Adrian Rollini
In the early 1990s, jazz trumpet Richard Sudhalter decided he needed to correct, what he perceived as a historical error: that the White jazz music...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 322: Kristin Naigus
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
Caption: Multi-instrumentalist Kristin Naigus in her studio.
Hear our interview with the video game industry’s go-to woodwind soloist and music that features her playing.

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


  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Chris Haddox
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 938 (Air Dates: Dec 19 - 25, 2022) Our guest this week on Art of the Song is West Virginia singer/songwriter Chris Haddox. In the vein of tra...

Bought by WOMR, KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, WRFA-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
The Jazz Dance
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Dance
In the 1920s, dozens of new dances were introduced to a dance hungry public. From America to Europe, people were feeling the rhythm in their feet.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Wilko Johnson Tribute - Roger Daltrey
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 937 (Air Dates: December 12 - 18, 2022) On November 21, 2022 British punk rocker Wilko Johnson passed away. The headline read: “Wilko Johnson,...

Bought by KRZA, WHRV, KUNM, KHEN-LP, WETS and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
New Orleans part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Freddie Keppard
The early Crescent City cornets set the standard for the decade of the 1920s. This program is a followup recognizing those creative artists who gen...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 321: Babylon's Fall
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
Caption: A team of composers led by Hiroshi Yamaguchi scored the 2022 action role-playing game Babylon’s Fall. The original soundtrack contains over five hours of music.
Sometimes, fantastic video game scores come from games that fail commercially and critically.

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


  • Added: Nov 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
New Orleans Horns
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Buddy Bolden
The tradition of Crescent City cornetists and trumpeters begins with Buddy Bolden and ends with Henry “Red” Allen. It’s well documented on record t...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sizzling Syncopators
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Noble Sissle
He joined his first society orchestra in 1916, helped organize a regimental band during WWI, teamed up with rag time pianist Eubie Blake, and forme...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 320: Animal Control
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
Caption: In the 2006 game Okami players take the role of white wolf Amaterasu, the Shinto sun goddess. The original score uses traditional Japanese instruments.
Hear a musical menagerie of themes from video games with animal protagonists.

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


  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
The Big Band
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Duke Ellington Orchesrtra
Long before the age of the “Big Band Era”, bandleaders were creating swing in their orchestras. Nineteen-twenty-seven to 1936 was a decade of expe...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 319: Game Brass Spotlight
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
Caption: The members of The Game Brass explore the vastness of outer space on their 2022 album BRASS EFFECT, which features over 40 musicians.
Classical chops meet video game music with brass ensemble The Game Brass.

Bought by WBAA, Vermont Public, WXXI Rochester, WGTE Public Media, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Gretchen Peters
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 933 (Air Dates: November 14 - 20, 2022) Our guest this week on Art of the Song is Grammy nominated, Nashville singer-songwriter Gretchen Peter...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, WHRV and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
KC Gems
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Benny Moton Orchestra
Kansas City developed a unique style of jazz in the 1920s. Musicians borrowed heavily from blues and ragtime. In the process, the band leaders deve...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 318: Inon Zur
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
Caption: Inon Zur has composed soundtracks for blockbuster video game series like Fallout and Dragon Age.
Award-winning composer Inon Zur joins us this week to talk about his music for titles like Fallout 4, The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, Sybe...

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


  • Added: Oct 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Songster
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ethel Waters
Before there can be a singer there has to be a lyricist. Fortunately, the 1920s were rich in the number of creative wordsmiths. Not to mention the...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 317: Horror
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
Caption: The 2022 cinematic horror game Immortality charges players with unraveling the mystery of an actress’s disappearance. Nainita Desai composed a haunting original score.
Hear spine-tingling scores from Resident Evil, Dead Space, A Plague Tale and more.

Bought by WBAA, Vermont Public, KECG, KUCO, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Lines of Color
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Edythe Turnham's Band
: Jazz emphasized improvisation and individual expression. It became a symbol of freedom and rebellion. Especially for the young. The fact that it...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 316: Austin Wintory and A Journey Symphony
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
Caption: For the 10th anniversary of the game Journey, Austin Wintory re-orchestrated the Grammy-nominated soundtrack that launched his career.
Composer Austin Wintory tells us about how his collaborations with musicians represent the heart of his music.

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


  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Kevin Washington and Ra Spirit Combine Spirituality with Diasporic Outlook
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: jazz88 logo 2022, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Kevin Washington views himself as an artist in the tradition of Pharaoh Sanders and john and Alice Coltrane, of spirituality and healing. When Kevi...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2022
  • Length: 08:00