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Reel Discovery: Seriously Red
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin witnesses a bored Australian office worker’s transformation into a Dolly Parton impersonator in Seriously Red.

Bought by WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, KKRN, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Brian Ziemniak Leads the Organ Trio, BZ3 into Crooner’s Supper Club in Fridley This Friday
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: BZ3 CD Cover A rt, Credit: Galen Higgens
BZ3, the organ trio led by Brian Ziemniak plays a mix of jazz, soul, R n B and Funk. And BZ3, new CD in hands, holds forth at Crooners Supper Club,...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Culture Caravan (1/29/23)
From: Julian Booker
Series: Culture Caravan
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Featuring music from the Caribbean: Cuba's Buena Vista Social Club, Jamaica's Althea & Donna, daughter of Haitian immigrants Leyla McCalla & more!

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:43
Small Labels
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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As the decades of the 1920 began, so did a plethora of brand-new small label recording studios. They, indeed, grabbed the attention of jazz musicia...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Pugilist
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy McPartland
When Cornetist Jimmy McPartland was growing up in west side Chicago, He was constantly finding he was at odds with the law. He says, if it wasn’t f...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ma Rainey
Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya is the title of a 1920s song written by Ma Rainey. It is also a book by Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro that tells stories from t...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Quoting in Rhythm
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Zutty Singleton
One way to truly enjoy the earliest days of jazz is to hear directly from the musicians themselves. Only they can tell the story as it really was.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Caravan (1/1/23)
From: Julian Booker
Series: Culture Caravan
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A look back at the second half of 2022 in international releases feat. music by Syria's Maya Youssef, Icelandic icon Bjork, Brazil's Charlotte Dos ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 03, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Jorgensens Wife and Husband Duet Perform and Compose Together
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: The Jorgensens, Credit: Jim Vasquez and Meredith Fierke
Twin Cities wife and husband team Brianna and Kurt Jorgensen perform and compose music together. Living together makes it oh-so-convenient to work ...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
The Jorgensens Open Up the New Year at the Aster Café in Minneapolis this Saturday Night
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: The Jorgensens, Credit: Jim Vasquez and Meredith Fierke
Twin Cities wife and husband team Brianna and Kurt Jorgensen perform and compose music together. Living together makes it oh-so-convenient to work ...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
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
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
For Davina of Davina and the Vagabonds, Repertoire Comes from the Songs She Loves Most
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: jazz88 logo 2022, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
The Twin Cities Davina and the Vagabonds plays with a unique, horn-driven rockin’ and bluesy style. But it is keyed by Davina, the band’s leader an...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
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
Minnesota Jazz Chamber Orchestra Show at the Chart House Show Spotlights Songs of Ella Fitzgerald
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
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The show by the Minnesota Jazz Chamber Orchestra at the Chart House in Lakeville has been rescheduled for Tuesday December 27 at 7pm. The performan...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
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
Culture Caravan (12/4/2022)
From: Julian Booker
Series: Culture Caravan
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Featuring music from the South African saxophonist, Mthunzi Mvubu, Cassandra Jenkins w/ Indian sarangi player, Suhail Yusuf Khan, Algerian singer/s...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Culture Caravan (11/27/2022)
From: Julian Booker
Series: Culture Caravan
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Featuring music from Finnish mother/daughter group, Solju, Mozambique's Eyuphuro, America-born, Indian-raised Londoner, percussionist Sarathy Korwa...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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
CJL-725 Second Helpings V06: Duets – Auguscik/Lewis, McCann/Allemana, Kahn/Million
From: Steve Rashid
Series: Chicago Jazz Live
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This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we are celebrating duets in another episode of musical second helpings, hidden gems from our live performances that ...

Bought by WLPR and WDCB


  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
Culture Caravan (11/20/2022)
From: Julian Booker
Series: Culture Caravan
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Featuring music from Mali's Fatoumata Diawara, a collaboration between Norwegian guitarist Hedvig Mollestad and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, a song by...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 21, 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
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
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