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Emptiness allows everything to enter, to be experienced. Dewey Redman, once a saxophonist spending time with Ornette Coleman, passed along ideas to...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Raven Radio, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KHNS, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: jazz88 logo 2022, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Power Up! Is the name of the Women’s Day Music Fest Friday night March 8 at the Hook and Ladder in Minneapolis. Billed as a celebration of women an...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
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Going where we’re supposed to be, we share tracks from new releases almost exclusively for our first half. Mike LeDonne’s Groover Quartet from the ...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Raven Radio, KRZA, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WOUB and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
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Like a good neighbor, Hacksaw is there. From the mid-1990s we start this time with a spirited session saxophonist Charles Lloyd recording with the ...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Raven Radio, KRZA, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
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A one-hour showcase of "the best music you've never heard" curated and hosted by contemporary music historian, author and broadcaster, Luke Crampton.

Bought by KSRQ, WXXI Rochester, KMXT, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:03
  • Purchases: 4
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Every year, we take the final show and say a thank you and raise a glass to the musicians who passed. This is that show.

Bought by KSRQ, KHNS, KWIT, The Bear 91.3, KUCA-FM, KTRL and more


  • Added: Dec 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Streaming service Deezer is trying a new format of paying artists and the world is watching. We have the story.

Bought by WYAP, KHNS, The Bear 91.3, KUCA-FM, KWIT, KECG and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Whatever we have to do spiritually to get past the sun going down, starting with a group of new releases which got past the first round and now adv...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WVBI-LP, WEJP-LP 107.1, KHNS and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
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Plenty of shade bathing preferring our heat thru music instead of the index. High-note trumpet man Maynard Ferguson still grabs us, and from a prev...

Bought by WYAP, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WEJP-LP 107.1, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Phantom Cries album cover, Credit: Kashimana Ahua
As a grant-supported Cedar Commissions artist, Kashimana created a set of songs about becoming a mother. The songs are now on CD, called Phantom Cr...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Phantom Cries album cover, Credit: Kashimana Ahua
As a grant-supported Cedar Commissions artist, Kashimana created a set of songs about becoming a mother. The songs are now on CD, called Phantom Cr...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
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“The Greatest Short Story of All Time?” Since childhood, the Ray Bradbury story, The Veldt, has fascinated me. It was one of the first stories tha...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:32
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We have ingress & egress to our music with still a little mileage left. A classic from trumpeter Lee Morgan begins the festivities, then the word f...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KECG, KRZA, WEJP-LP 107.1, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:04
  • Purchases: 11
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Way in, very much so. Positive energy surrounds our beginnings with new releases, first up with A & M Octet (that’s bari for baritone sax and bone ...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KECG, KRZA, WEJP-LP 107.1, KHNS and more


  • Added: May 16, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Robert Lehmann by Robert Lehmann, Credit: Robert Lehmann by Robert Lehmann
Cedar Commissions shows are here on Friday and Saturday February 17 and 18. Each performer receives funding from the Jerome Foundation to create ne...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
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Give up and something happens: Memphis piano starts our engine with Phineas of the Newborn family, then to a jam session in miniature direct from C...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WYAP, KHNS, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:03
  • Purchases: 9
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Fresh back from the Tucson Jazz Festival, we continue ’23 with high level music. For example bassist Domi Edson brings in pianist Spencer Zweifel a...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WEJP-LP 107.1, WOUB, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Cumar poster, Credit: Nick Lethert
Cumar means confluence in Irish Gaelic, and Cumar is also the name of a Twin Cities group that combines African and Irish Music and Dance. The grou...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
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Pianist Kenny Barron and his recent quintet are featured from a recent release, and no one sang like June Christy who we appreciate more with each ...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, KHNS, WVBI-LP, WOUB and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:04
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Tod Peterson, Credit: Dan Norman
A Christmas Carole Petersen portrays a Minnesota family’s Christmas celebration. It has light moments and dark ones, but in the end, family and tra...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
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Emerging guitarist David Blake begins a program of innovation, and although we have the latest EP by Sara Gazarek, we discovered an astonishing 200...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WOUB, KHNS, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Michelle Kinney, Credit: Lee Glasgow
Monday is the night for the jazz series at the Icehouse in Minneapolis. On Monday November 21, it’s two groups that feature free improvisation. Phi...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Aaron Kerr, Credit: Elizabeth Thonen-Kerr
Aaron Kerr’s new opera captures the spirit of the times of the assassination of President Kennedy and resignation of President Nixon. Inspired by T...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Luke LeBlanc, Credit: Sara Bel Kloetzke
Luke Leblanc’s ’s new CD, Fugue State reflects Luke’s concern about the polarization you see everywhere today. According to Luke the trouble today ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Luke LeBlanc, Credit: Sara Bel Kloetzke
Luke Leblanc’s ’s new CD, Fugue State reflects Luke’s concern about the polarization seen everywhere today. The formal CD release is at the Icehous...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 08:00