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NL 23-14: The Thad Jones Songbook, 3/27/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Described by Charles Mingus as "Bartok with valves for a pencil guided by God,” trumpeter and bandleader Thad Jones became one of the most respecte...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #292
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
NL 23-12: The Wayne Shorter Songbook, 3/13/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the 1960s, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter composed a torrent of music for Art Blakey, Miles Davis, and his own albums as a leader on the Blue N...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Trobairitz: The Women Troubadours
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
Caption: 12th-century trobairitz Azalais de Porcairagues
Troubadours have been romanticized and re-imagined in popular culture for centuries now, but rarely does that evocative re-imagination include the ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
NL 23-11: Q Is For Jazz: Quincy Jones, 3/6/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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One of the world's most successful music producers got his start as a jazz trumpeter, arranger, and bandleader. We'll hear recordings he made in th...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 59:03
Jazz Women of the 1940s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring women instrumentalists who thrived in the upside-down jazz world of wartime America.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WJCT, WGBH Radio Boston, High Plains Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15
Jazz Women of the 1980s*
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.

Bought by KLCC and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz Women of the 1990s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Renaissance Women: The Music of Courtesans
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
HARM 23-11: Rediscovering Hildegard, 3/6/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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As we continue to learn about women composers of the past, twelfth-century Abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen remains one of the most studied, ...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
NL 23-10: From Naptown to Paris: Wes Montgomery Live, 2/27/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Wes Montgomery was one of the most influential jazz guitarists of his generation. In recent years newly-discovered live recordings have surfaced, a...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
NL 23-09: Homecoming: The Return of Dexter Gordon, 2/20/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Exploring tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon’s triumphant return to the United States in the mid-1970s and the last years of his career.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
NL 23-08: Here Comes The Sun: Nina Simone On RCA, 2/13/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In late 1966 the fiercely individualistic singer and pianist Nina Simone signed with RCA Records and continued her genre-bending explorations of ja...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
NL 23-07: Jazz Is Not A Noun: Don Shirley, The Extraordinary Pianist, 2/6/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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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
HARM 23-08: Fit as a Fiddle, 2/13/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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This week on Harmonia, virtuoso music for the violin, as we compare baroque-era Italian- and French-styles. Our featured release is Regina Angeloru...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Building Brotherhood (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Gay men’s choruses have a rich history that stretches back to San Francisco in the 1970’s.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KCHW, and KHEN-LP


  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Building Brotherhood (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Gay men’s choruses have a rich history that stretches back to San Francisco in the 1970’s.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WTJU, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Building Brotherhood (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Gay men’s choruses have a rich history that stretches back to San Francisco in the 1970’s.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WYAP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WXDU and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Building Brotherhood (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Gay men’s choruses have a rich history that stretches back to San Francisco in the 1970’s.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
NL 23-06: Black Composers In Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis, 1959, 1/30/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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The first in a recurring series of shows explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Again...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Black Composers in Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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This hour explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Against Tomorrow, released the same ...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
NL 23-05: Birth of a Label: ECM, 1/23/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In 1969, Manfred Eicher founded what would become one of the world’s most successful and influential jazz record labels. We’ll hear recordings from...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Director's Cut: Best of WGR 2022 (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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This year, we’re bringing you some of our favorite segments from 2022.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRGY, Royalton Community Radio, and KCHW


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Director's Cut: Best of WGR 2022 (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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This year, we’re bringing you some of our favorite segments from 2022.

Bought by KEDT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMUU-LP, WRGY, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Director's Cut: Best of WGR 2022 (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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This year, we’re bringing you some of our favorite segments from 2022.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WLPR , WFHB, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7