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Black and Fine (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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Some of America’s first maestros of European art music were enslaved and free Virginians of African descent.

Bought by KCBX, KVCR, Morehead State Public Radio, KUAC, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 8
HARM 23-48: The Museum of Renaissance Music, 11/20/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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This week on Harmonia, we’re visiting The Museum of Renaissance Music, or at least, listening to it. Editors Vincenzo Borghetti and Tim Shephard cu...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
PE 2345
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Hits and Misses

Bought by WMTNradio, Royalton Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KHNS, WFHB and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 23
NL 23-46: Big Band Bird: Charlie Parker With The Big Bands, 11/6/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Saxophonist Charlie Parker is renowned for his small-group recordings, but he also was captured a number of times in large-ensemble settings. This ...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
10,000 GOOD SONGS - Special - "New" Beatles and Rolling Stones
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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The November 2023 release of a "new" and "final" song by THE BEATLES called "NOW AND THEN" is featured midway through this episode of Paul Ingles' ...

Bought by KSRQ, KKRN, KMXT, KFSK, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #326 ("Someday")
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KKRN, KMXT, and KFSK


  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Making ‘Under Pressure’
From: Matt Hill
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When Queen and David Bowie met in Switzerland to record their iconic collaboration ‘Under Pressure’ on 26th October, 1981, *quite a lot* of drugs a...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 10:06
NL 23-45: 1961: New Jazz Frontier, 10/30/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Night Lights takes another long leap back to the year in jazz, featuring music from John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy’s controversial quintet, George R...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Windy City Decendants
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: '20s Chicago
Guitarist Eddie Condon is quoted as saying that there was so much music in Chicago’s South Side in the 1920s, “you could hold a musical instrument ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #325
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ, KKRN, and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Music Archive Showcase #158 - TALK MUSIC WITH ME: DENNY TEDESCO, director, THE WRECKING CREW
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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Music specials host Paul Ingles talks with film director Denny Tedesco about his 2015 film release called THE WRECKING CREW, about the Los Angeles ...

Bought by KFSK, WRVO Public Media, KSJE, WRGY, KUHF and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Bountiful Harvest Music
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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We’re celebrating the harvest season. From pumpkins and cool breezes to the more spiritual aspects of remembrance and mortality, we’ve got bushels ...

Bought by WVIA


  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Hot Chamber Music
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Miff Mole
In 1917, New York became a hub of jazz activity. At the center of that universe sits Reisenweber’s Restaurant and nightclub at the intersection of ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Hep Harmony/vocal jive 2023
From: Doug Hillyard
Series: Doug the Jitterbug's Audio Collage
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Radio show broadcast 10/18/23 on KZCT 89.5 FM Vallejo, CA (Ozcatradio.com). Lots of good vocal jazz from 1920's-40's. Fun bands backing the singers...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:29
NL 23-44: Heard It on the TV: Jazz Takes on Television Themes, 10/23/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Music for television shows has often been created or recorded by jazz musicians, including Oliver Nelson, Neal Hefti, Shelly Manne, Vince Guaraldi,...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
HARM 23-46: Songs of Thanks and Praise, 11/6/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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This week, we sample music of Thanksgiving in early America. From Spanish settlers in Florida to Moravians in North Carolina to the father of Ameri...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
HARM 23-45: Pub Crawl, 10/30/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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This week on Harmonia, come along on a musical pub crawl. We’ll hear from hard-partying musicians of the past and enjoy tunes about beer, tavern li...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #324
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #323 - "TALK RADIO"
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ, KKRN, and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
NL 23-43: Jazz Women Of The 1980s, 10/16/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the 1980s a new generation of women jazz musicians emerged who expanded their predecessors' push against the patriarchal boundaries of the jazz ...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
The Jazz Phools
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Perry Bradford
When the aging jazz artist was hospitalized, his doctors thought they should get some background information on his life, and he told them that he ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Slimy, Slithering, and Squiggling Things
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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A snake slithers at your feet. A slimy frog leaps from a lily pad onto your head, and a fantastical serpent squiggles past — so begins a creepy wee...

Bought by KTXK and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Songs of Thanks and Praise
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Join us as we sample music of Thanksgiving in early America. From Spanish settlers in Florida to Moravians in North Carolina to the father of Ameri...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and WVIA


  • Added: Oct 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
NL 23-42: Indiana Avenue: Black Boulevard of Jazz, 10/9/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Indianapolis' Indiana Avenue neighborhood produced several of the most influential jazz artists to appear on the post-World War II jazz scene, incl...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
The Count
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Count Basie
He was one of the all-time greats in early jazz. Bandleader, composer, pianist, who got his start in vaudeville. He became the first African Americ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1

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