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Jazz/Blues
9:20 am
Thu September 29, 2005

Marilyn Maye Presents Tribute to Frank Sinatra

Years before the first of her 76 appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - years before there was a Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - vocalist Marilyn Maye was learning the art of putting across a song from someone she heard mostly on the radio: Frank Sinatra.

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Jazz/Blues
1:43 pm
Sun August 21, 2005

New CD Release by KC Jazz Artist, Alaadeen

Saxophonist and composer Ahmad Shahid Alaadeen, talks about his new album "New Africa Suite." He spoke with KCUR's Lee Ingalls.

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Jazz/Blues
8:04 am
Tue June 7, 2005

A Conversation with Chuck Haddix on Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop

Back in the 1920s and 30s, Kansas City was a lively mix of political wheeling-and-dealing, organized crime, and the hot sounds of jazz.

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Jazz/Blues
9:26 am
Thu December 23, 2004

WEB EXTRA: A BCR Interview

Credit design by Rhondda Francis
BCR CD Cover

A conversation with Dr. Thomas Aber and Dwight Frizzell about BCR - described as "the world's only Afro Nuclear Wavabilly Funk Swing Reggae Turska band." (Dec. 2004)

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