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Of Two Minds
From: melodically challenged
Series: The Best of melodically challenged Summer of 24
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Mae West said, “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.” Welcome to melodically challenged when this week, we are of two min...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:01
Full Moon Hacksaw #1949 (Hour 1 & 2) - 06/06/2024
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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The road starts out wide open then gets narrow. Master drummer Elvin Jones leads his three-saxophone group, Darra Starr Tucker would be a good blin...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Raven Radio, KRZA, KHNS, KECG and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
Full Moon Hacksaw #1944 (Hour 1 & 2) - 05/02/2024
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Our discipline of eternal metaphysics, jazz is the lens thru which we view the world. Techno Cats are a 2023 grouping of above-average players with...

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


  • Added: Apr 30, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
So, 100 flutists walk into a room....
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: UMFA President Sarah Bylsma shows off a bass fulte, Credit: Alison Young
The Upper Midwest Flute Association offers places for flutists to perform, to learn, to compete and to borrow music and instruments.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Full Moon Hacksaw #1941 (Hour 1 & 2) - 04/11/2024
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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We are souls gathered together for an assembly, look around, find your way. When pianist Toshiko had the last name Mariano, it was to alto saxophon...

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


  • Added: Apr 09, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
A Conversation with NEA Jazz Master, Jimmy Heath
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Saxophonist, composer and arranger Jimmy Heath talks about his storied career and some of the jazz greats he’s played with.

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2024
  • Length: 33:05
  • Purchases: 1
HARM 24-15: Listening to Art: Angel Concerts, 4/8/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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If you’ve spent any time in the early European wing at your local art museum, you might have noticed just how musical religious art can be. This we...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
Saving Minnesotan Old Time Music
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: "Clawhammer" Mike Sawyer, Credit: Britta Greene and James Napoli
Mike Sawyer is on a mission to uncover the roots of Upper Midwest folk music and keep it alive for future generations.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 30:20
UNITED NATIONS GOAL #5 GENDER EQUALITY
From: melodically challenged
Series: Saving the Planet: The United Nations Sustainability Goals
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Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged. We continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal nu...

Bought by KECG


  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw #1935 (Hour 1 & 2) - 02/29/2024
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Past is future, and to prove it, the Buselli-Wallarab Orchestra have re-arranged ditties from 100 years ago (from their station of Richmond Indiana...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Raven Radio, KRZA, KECG, KMXT and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 11
Watching TV on the Radio
From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!
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In 1939 at the New York World’s Fair, television was introduced to the public for the first time. We’ve been hooked ever since! Welcome to this wee...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
Lost in the Songs
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
Caption: Peter Jesperson's record room, Credit: Todd Melby
Peter Jesperson is a music legend. Born in Minnesota, Jesperson was a seminal figure in the Minneapolis punk and new wave scene of the 1970's and 1...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 23:01
Full Moon Hacksaw #1929 (Hour 1 & 2) - 01/18/2024
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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We wanna route our path as we are “Chasing Horizons” with trumpeter Fred Forney and his sax man Brice Winston. The latter appeared at the 2024 Tucs...

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


  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 12
Full Moon Hacksaw #1926 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/28/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Feel the heart space relax. Drummer Elvin Jones is mighty and complex, sax man John Coltrane is welcoming. Guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli performs a m...

Bought by KMXT, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 9
Full Moon Hacksaw #1922 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11/30/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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We’ve been called worse by better. Mose Allison rides again with his 1970s version of “Your Mind is On Vacation,” vocalist Maria Muldaur brings in ...

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


  • Added: Nov 29, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:03
  • Purchases: 11
Full Moon Hacksaw #1917 (Hour 1 & 2) - 10/26/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Jazz provides mistakes as opportunities, a total rhythm underly it all. Saxophonist Cory Weeds has a new release bringing in trumpet man Brad Turne...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WYAP, KHNS, WOUB and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 9
Full Moon Hacksaw #1916 (Hour 1 & 2) - 10/19/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Freedom to find what feels best and to hang there, we listen to the Miles of 1963, then a trajectory of new 2023 releases with the Affinity Trio, t...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KHNS, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 11
ACADEMY POTLUCK VOL. 1
From: melodically challenged
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'Potluck' literally means "luck of the pot" in reference to feeding unexpected guests. Our modern interpretation recalls a community meal consisti...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
An Hour of Storytelling - From the Blues to Classic Greek Heroes
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Stories by Reverend Robert B. Jones and Andy Offutt Irwin

Bought by KTXK, KSJE, KECG, Angelica Community Radio, KKRN and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 8
Full Moon Hacksaw #1909 (Hour 1 & 2) - 08/31/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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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
Full Moon Hacksaw #1907 (Hour 1 & 2) - 08/17/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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This episode is chock full of vintage vinyl, some of it shifted shellac. Take for instance a small Count Basie group recorded by John Hammond pre W...

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


  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Big Three
From: melodically challenged
Series: The Best of melodically challenged Summer of 24
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged whe...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
The Power of One
From: melodically challenged
Series: The Best of melodically challenged Summer of 24
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Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time. Ron Hall Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged when we will ...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:04
Full Moon Hacksaw #1898 (Hour 1 & 2) - 06/15/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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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
Mr. Right, Mr. Wrong and Everyone In-between
From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!
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Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged, when we’ll hear an hour of poetry and music about husbands: Mr. Right, Mr. Wrong and everyone in-bet...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:02