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Celebrate Sonny Rollins' 90th Birthday!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sonny Rollins, Credit: john Abbott
We revisit a 2017 conversation with the legendary tenor saxophonist.

Bought by WCNY and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:44
  • Purchases: 2
WorldMix with Rupert Palmer
From: Rupert Palmer
Series: WorldMix
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This week we feature new music from East and West Africa, latest soul from Miruga as well as dusting off two great classics from Bryan Ferry.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
NL 20-31: Electrifying: Charlie Christian, 7/27/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Music from one of the 20th century's most influential guitarists, heard with Benny Goodman and others.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
Quindon Tarver: "When Doves Cry" by the Late, Great Legendary Prince
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Quindon Tarver, Credit: Shefik
Birds - Quindon Tarver is an American singer. He is best known for his cover of Prince's "When Doves Cry" for the 1996 film "William Shakespeare's ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:31
Sonny Turner: The Lesson in Life You Learn
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Sonny Turner, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Bill...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 01:19
Poetic Justice (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state -- one that char...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WMUU-LP, WXDU, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
Poetic Justice (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state -- one that char...

Bought by WSGE, KRDP, WJCT, KVSC, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Poetic Justice (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller (Invisibilia) discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state --...

Bought by KXCV, WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 3
Blues Routes - Lynching Protest and the Blues
From: Thom Butler
Series: Blues Routes Weekly
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An historical and musical examination of the history of lynching and racial protest over the past 100 years.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:02
Rhythm Atlas 139 2020-06-13 Black Voices of Protest from Around the World
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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June is African-American Music Appreciation Month - originally proclaimed as Black Music Month by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. We’ll expand on t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, celebrating an American holiday marking the formal end of slavery.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 30
NL 20-25: The Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree, 6/15/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A jazz tribute to Juneteenth, the African-American holiday marking the end of slavery, with music from Paul Robeson and Count Basie, John Coltrane,...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
The Lovers of The Poor
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry and music which reacts to racism and social unrest.

Bought by Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 56:34
  • Purchases: 1
The Leaders
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Armstrong
Knowledge, creativity, charisma, and endless energy are just a few qualities that make a good musical leader. If the leader can also arrange and co...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
WoodSongs 864: Bobby Rush and Dallahan
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Blues man Bobby Rush!
On this week's ENCORE broadcast of WoodSongs 864, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes blues legend Bobby Rush plus award winning band from Scotla...

Bought by KENW, KHNS, KKRN, WETS, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Meet Saxophonist, composer and 2020 NEA Jazz Master Roscoe Mitchell
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Roscoe Mitchell, Credit: Ken Weiss
Music and conversation with NEA Jazz Master Roscoe Mitchell

Bought by WDCB and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bill Withers: Just As He Is
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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A deep look into the late Bill Withers early life in music that set up the making of his debut album, "Just As I Am." Please consider this free on...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, WOMR, WKMS, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Music Matters (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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We all know that teenagers would rather die than hang out with their parents, right? Not so, says Jon Lohman. The Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax,...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCMU Michigan, WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 11
Music Matters (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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We all know that teenagers would rather die than hang out with their parents, right? Not so, says Jon Lohman. The Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax,...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, KRDP, WLIW, WYAP and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Music Matters (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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We all know that teenagers would rather die than hang out with their parents, right? Not so, says Jon Lohman. The Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax,...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 3
NL 20-15: Maiden Voyage: Herbie Hancock In The 1960s, 4/6/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the 1960s Herbie Hancock seemed to be everywhere on the jazz scene, recording both as a leader for Blue Note and as a sideman with Miles Davis a...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
NL 20-13: Ella '57: Ella Fitzgerald Flies High, 3/23/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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We take a look at Ella Fitzgerald in 1957, one of the singer's busiest and most memorable years on record.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:04
The unique voice of bassist Reggie Workman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Reggie Workman , Credit: Richard Kohler
Bassist and 2020 NEA Jazz Master Reggie Workman talks about his storied career

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 1
#20-07 Gould Piano Trio part 2
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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The Gould Piano Trio play Ravel's piano trio, and Er-Gene Kahng plays the 2nd violin concerto by Florence Price

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Bubber & Cootie
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bubber Miley, left
They’re best remembered for their mastery of the muted trumpet. Bubber Miley and Cootie Williams were standout musicians who performed with the Duk...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1

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