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Caption: S. Epatha Merkerson
Produced by JAZZ HOUSE KIDS, a nonprofit jazz education and performance organization, the 2014 MONTCLAIR JAZZ FESTIVAL features Christian McBride, ...

Bought by KCSM, WJAB, and WNCU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Ruby Dee, c. 1960, Credit: John Springer Collection/Corbis
Ruby Dee, actress, writer and activist died on June 12 at the age of 91. The WFMT Radio Network is offering this excerpt of Ruby Dee speaking with ...

Bought by PRX Remix and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 2
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The PEACE TALKS RADIO series celebrated 10 years of radio and online programs about peacemaking with an anniversary concert in 2013. These highlig...

Bought by KUOW and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 25, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
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The PEACE TALKS RADIO series celebrates 10 years of radio and online programs about peacemaking with an anniversary concert in 2013. These highlig...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Did Bono and U2 Make the List?
The hosts of Peace Talks Radio present a special program counting down the Top 10 Peace Songs since the late 1960's. Also featured are honorable me...

Bought by KUOW and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Marian Mc Partland, Credit: Yoshis Jazz Club
Jazz singer and radio host Melanie O'Reilly of "Jazz on the Bay" met with pianist and Piano Jazz host Marian McPartland in 2007 when Marian was 89 ...

Bought by WDCB and KCSM


  • Added: Sep 06, 2013
  • Length: 57:44
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Stan Getz
“My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 05, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Phil Ramone passed away on March 30th, 2013, leaving a legacy of music he made popular for hundreds of artists like Billy Joel, Paul Simon & Ray Ch...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:54:17
Caption: Richie Havens
Folk singing legend Richie Havens died Monday, April 22nd, 2013 at the age of 72 of a sudden heart attack. In this excerpt from the documentary Ba...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:20
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An hour long choral music show telling the Christmas story through familiar and lesser known carols.

Bought by KUAT, KTSW 89.9, WHRV, KSLU, KUCO and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 33
Caption: Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday once said, "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." In a recent Views and Brews f...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and WJSU


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
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As the Rolling Stones prepare to mark their 50th anniversary this fall, we join the celebration by presenting a preview of a two-hour public radio ...

Bought by Louisville Public Media and KGLT


  • Added: Sep 21, 2012
  • Length: 21:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Rodriguez was a music legend in South Africa, but it took 25 years for him to find out.

Bought by Prairie Public, WORT, Harford Community Radio, KUPR low power FM, KPVL and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
At the Sabbath table on a Friday evening, the Khasidim of Eastern Europe sang tish nigunim, “table songs” praising God . . . seeking to get closer ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:16
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
Sometimes, klezmer songs borrowed from popular folk melodies. “Lustig Zayn”, also known as “My Yofes” came from Polish peasants. But the more kle...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:24
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This is a more spiritual tune. In 18th Century Poland, the Jewish mystic philosophy of Khasidism was born. The Khasidim believed that singing song...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:53
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
In the audio drama “The Witches of Lublin,” Sofia is a teenaged girl in love – all that matters to her is that the object of her affection shares h...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:44
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This lively dance is a bulgar. It is exactly the sort of music one would hear at one of the market fairs held in Easter Europe during the late 1700...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 09:55
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Legendary folksinger and social activist Pete Seeger is receiving long-delayed appreciation for his immense contribution to American music and cult...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KWIT, KHNS, 90.5 WSNC, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Clarence Clemons (left) with Bruce Springsteen From Born To Run Album Jacket
Saxman Clarence Clemons, original member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, died from complications following a stroke, June 18, 2011 at the age...

Bought by Radio New Zealand, Wyoming Public Radio, KMXT, KSUT, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
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A look back at the last Bob Marley & The Wailers concert (Pittsburgh - Sep 23, 1980) with previously unavailable live recordings and exclusive inte...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WFAE, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 36
Caption: FM Odyssey's 2010 Thanksgiving Show
An offering for Thanksgiving Day or week of. Fred Migliore the host and creator of this 19 year old weekly program puts together several music reci...

Bought by KRCB 104.9, KKWE Niijii Radio, KFOK-LPFM, WOWL FM, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:53
  • Purchases: 19
Caption: Roberto Martinez, Sr., Credit: Genevieve Russell
The story of one of the most long-lived and influential traditional New Mexican Hispanic musical groups in the state, Los Reyes de Albuquerque. Th...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUPR low power FM, WVTF, WUFT, KUNM and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20