All Pieces for WFIU

 

  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:00

  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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Anita O’Day was a dynamic and independent singer from the moment she burst onto the big-band scene in the 1940s. We’ll hear her with Gene Krupa, S...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Doris Day was a pop star and a film star, but on this Afterglow special, I’ll highlight the often overlooked aspect of her career: a jazz singer. W...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Troy Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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It’s vocal jazz interpretations of the music of Bob Dylan, on this Afterglow special, including covers by Nina Simone, Madeleine Peyroux, and more.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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In the 1960s Herbie Hancock seemed to be everywhere on the jazz scene, recording both as a leader for Blue Note and as a sideman with Miles Davis a...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Enlightenment philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing said, “I'm coming to Leipzig, to the place where one can see the whole world in miniature.” Join...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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This week’s Harmonia program is in some ways a meditation on impermanence, as we explore the musical legacy of the great Cathedral of Notre Dame in...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Gardens surprise and enchant us. Their fragrant smells can arise in one place from sweet violets, and in another from perfectly trimmed hedges. Thi...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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We take a look at Ella Fitzgerald in 1957, one of the singer's busiest and most memorable years on record.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:04
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In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star. ...

Bought by KMUW, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, High Plains Public Radio, WKMS and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: A Moment of Science
The Moon Is Getting All New Mirrors

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:00

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: A Moment of Science
The Greenland Ice Sheet Is Melting Faster Than Expected

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:00

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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Imagine being a singer in your late 20’s in the Sistine Chapel choir with Josquin des Pres as a colleague. That was the fate of Costanzo Festa, one...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
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Ted Gioia, author of book The Birth (and Death) of the Cool, (who's also the author of The History of Jazz and West Coast Jazz), joins us on this e...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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On this Afterglow special, we explore the jazz side of the fab four, with a few jazz versions of Beatles songs, performed by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank...

Bought by KMUW, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3