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Powell biographer Peter Pullman joins us again to help chronicle the up-and-down final years of a bebop piano legend.
- Added: Sep 19, 2024
- Length: 07:00
Folk Salad celebrates Canadian artists ie. Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchel, Neil Young, Bruce Cocburn, K.D. Lang, The Wailin' Jennys, Shania Twain, Ray...
- Added: Sep 18, 2024
- Length: 58:59
Bud Powell revolutionized jazz piano for the bebop generation and beyond. For this centennial tribute, we focus on his early years and talk with Po...
- Added: Sep 14, 2024
- Length: 59:02
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard quickly established himself on the New York scene in the late 1950s. We’ll explore the recordings he made as a sideman wi...
- Added: Sep 08, 2024
- Length: 59:02
In 1957 tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins continued the impressive streak of recordings that he'd begun since returning to the jazz scene in 1955. We...
- Added: Sep 01, 2024
- Length: 59:01
This airing of Folk Salad pays tribute to Tulsa musician, singer/songwriter, master bass man, and all around good guy, Don Morris. Don recently pa...
- Added: Aug 25, 2024
- Length: 58:58
A centennial tribute to the trumpeter's career, spanning his recordings with Charlie Parker in the 1940s to his collaborations with Joe Henderson i...
- Added: Aug 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This hour, we're featuring the 1962-63 Roulette recordings of Dinah Washington, who died at the age of 38 in 1963. Washington's Roulette period off...
- Added: Aug 18, 2024
- Length: 59:01
A centennial celebration of Indiana trombonist J.J. Johnson as both composer and innovative instrumentalist.
- Added: Aug 07, 2024
- Length: 59:04
Music of the Terre Haute, Indiana, big-band leader whose 1940s orchestra helped pave the way for cool jazz.
- Added: Aug 01, 2024
- Length: 59:03
In this broadcast, Folk Salad joins with the Tulsa Office of Film, Music, Arts and Culture in celebrating Tulsa music by featuring all Tulsa artist...
- Added: Jul 30, 2024
- Length: 58:59
On this edition of Harmonia, we're exploring music inspired by the bird who often proclaims warmer weather...the cuckoo, and its association with h...
- Added: Jul 30, 2024
- Length: 59:01
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Canadian country star Michelle Wright plus rustic Kentucky Americana song...
Bought by Radio Bristol, Allegheny Mountain Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), WEJP-LP 107.1, KENW and more
- Added: Jul 24, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 34
Trumpeter Don Ellis is best-known today for the big bands he led during the late 1960s and early 1970s and their use of odd time signatures, but he...
- Added: Jul 19, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This week on Afterglow, for Bastille Day, we turn to the music of Paris to hear music written "dans la Mode française," performed by Madeleine Peyr...
Bought by WLRH
- Added: Jul 15, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
A musical quodlibet can be several things — a parody that contains some kind of crazy list, or a piece with well-known melodies that appear in succ...
- Added: Jul 12, 2024
- Length: 58:59
The chalumeau [shall-a-moe] was a single-reed ancestor of the clarinet, whose brief popularity left a lasting impression. We’ll explore music for t...
- Added: Jul 12, 2024
- Length: 58:58
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 ...
- Added: Jul 11, 2024
- Length: 59:01
In the first half of Folk Salad, we celebrate Juneteenth, the day slaves were set free in Texas, marking the end of slavery in the south. We will ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2024
- Length: 58:59
At the beginning of the 1960s saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and pianist Horace Parlan teamed up to make a dynamic run of recordings for the Blue N...
- Added: Jul 07, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Night Lights celebrates America’s Independence Day with music from James Reese Europe, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and other c...
- Added: Jun 27, 2024
- Length: 59:02
A salute to talk-show host and jazz advocate Steve Allen, who also played piano and wrote numerous songs such as “This Could Be the Start of Someth...
- Added: Jun 20, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Singer Thelma Carpenter’s career extended from the swing era to The Wiz and The Cosby Show. We’ll hear her with Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Coleman ...
- Added: Jun 15, 2024
- Length: 59:04
Renaissance and Baroque weddings of the rich and famous were accompanied by entire orchestras. Horse ballet, mock naval-battles, operas, sculptures...
- Added: Jun 11, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Local guitarist and singer/songwriter Paul Benjaman releases his latest record, "My Bad Side, Wants a Good Time." Folk Salad has Paul into the stud...
- Added: Jun 04, 2024
- Length: 58:59
