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Carmen McRae was one of the most respected jazz singers in the business for four decades. This week, we’ll explore her early recordings for the Dec...
- Added: Feb 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Well, golly - what are we going to do with all this music? Guess we will just have to listen to ALL of it! :)
Listening to tunes from AK artists l...
- Added: Jan 29, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
Keyboard masterpieces by the Spanish compsoer and piano virtuoso Isaac Albéniz, performed by Miguel Baselga and Judith Jáuregui
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSJE, WRTI, KMUN and more
- Added: Jan 22, 2024
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 36
Singer Keely Smith became famous as the deapan sidekick to her husband Louis Prima, and as a ballad singer in the late 1950s. This week on Afterglo...
- Added: Oct 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
This week, we explore the songs of Dorothy Fields, a Tin Pan Alley songwriter whose work stretched from the 1920s through the 1970s. We’ll sample h...
- Added: Jul 18, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Swimwear never made more of a splash than when designer Louis Réard unveiled his daring new two-piece at the Piscine Molitor in Paris on July 5th, ...
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 09:47
This week, we celebrate the smoky voice of jazz singer Chris Connor, who got her start with Claude Thornhill’s band in the 1940s, and went on to re...
- Added: Oct 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
From the 1950s on, Ella Fitzgerald became known around the world as one of the most renowned live performers in jazz. This week, we’ll sample from ...
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Marie Röder brings us the unlikely story of Maccabi Bnot Nazareth, the first Arab team to play in Israel’s premiere volleyball league. But this isn...
- Added: Aug 09, 2022
- Length: 18:38
This week, we take a look at some of the jazz and swing tunes from the 1950s Capitol Records diva Kay Starr, in honor of her 100th birthday.
- Added: Jul 11, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Doris Day was a pop star and a film star, but this week on Afterglow, I’ll highlight the often overlooked aspect of her career: a jazz singer. We’l...
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
This is a Classical music program featuring women of color.
They are all notable Women in various fields of Classical Music;
including Composers, ...
Bought by KVCR, WXXI Rochester, and WNMU-FM
- Added: Jul 22, 2021
- Length: 56:24
- Purchases: 3
Antonia Montoya, New Mexico Native is also known as “Alonerly” talks to Generation Justice cultivating practicum member to discuss her New Album “...
- Added: Oct 09, 2020
- Length: 20:53
Birds - In 2012, Joanne "J-Bird" Phillips founded J-Bird Music for the Arts, with the vision of reviving arts programs by providing much needed equ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 03:28
Comedian Jan McInnis shares clean comedy from her comedy show. She is currently touring theatres in the Baby Boomer Comedy Show. www.TheWorkLady.com
- Added: Feb 12, 2020
- Length: :28
Singer Blossom Dearie could be coy, cute, heartbreaking funny, and intimate, and she exhibited all of it on her six albums for Verve Records in the...
Bought by KMUW
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
On the first Friday of every month, we check with a couple folks around the listening area and discover what is happening in the arts scene!
- Added: Jun 01, 2018
- Length: 28:13
A conversation with Michelle Hensley, artistic director for Ten Thousand Things Theater about her troupe's unique performances.
- Added: Sep 28, 2017
- Length: 14:06
Glossier is an online beauty company that launched on Instagram in 2014. Emily is also the founder of Into the Gloss, an online community dedicated...
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 19:00
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
Segment 1: Carlotta Walls Lanier Segment 2: Dr. Patton Segment 3: Roman Krznaric Segment 4: Margaret Klaw Segment 5: Melanie Wagner
- Added: Aug 09, 2015
- Length: 52:26
She was called "The First Lady of the Piano", "The First Lady of the Jazz Piano" and "The First Lady of Jazz". She was Mary Lou Williams and was a ...
Bought by Radio Catskill, WVAS, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Oct 23, 2014
- Length: 57:03
- Purchases: 3
She was known as “The Personality Girl,” with a singing style that crossed over between sweet and hot jazz-influenced presentations. Annette Hansha...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
In the all the years we've celebrated President's Day, we've never honored a female president, because we've never had one. It's not that women ha...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WLPR
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
Composer Harry Warren is best remembered for the music he wrote for Judy Garland, and the musicals, 42nd Street and The Gold Diggers, however, long...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 04:38
- Purchases: 1
