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Space Is the Place
- The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
- Written by: John Szwed
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra - a.k.a. Herman Blount - was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn. He recorded over 200 albums with his Arkestra, which, dressed in Egypto-space costumes, played everything from boogie-woogie and swing to fusion and free jazz.
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Space Is the Place
- The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2021-11-09
- Language: English
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Cosmic Scholar
- The Life and Times of Harry Smith
- Written by: John Szwed
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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Harry Smith was, in the words of Robert Frank, "the only person I met in my life that transcended everything." In Cosmic Scholar, John Szwed patches together, for the first time, the life of one of the twentieth century's most overlooked cultural figures.
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Cosmic Scholar
- The Life and Times of Harry Smith
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2023-08-22
- Language: English
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Jazz 101
- Written by: John F. Szwed
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Jazz 101 is a fascinating entry into the world of jazz, for the beginner, novice, or jazz enthusiast. Szwed takes listeners on a tour of the varied and nonlinear history of jazz, exploring how it developed from an ethnic music to become America's most popular music and then part of the avant-garde in less than 50 years.
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Jazz 101
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2004-05-26
- Language: English
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Billie Holiday
- The Musician and the Myth
- Written by: John Szwed
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Drawing on a vast amount of new material that has surfaced in the last decade, critically acclaimed jazz writer John Szwed considers how her life inflected her art, her influences, her uncanny voice and rhythmic genius, a number of her signature songs, and her legacy.
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Billie Holiday
- The Musician and the Myth
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2015-03-31
- Language: English
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Alan Lomax: A Biography
- The Man Who Recorded the World
- Written by: John Szwed
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 20 hrs and 30 mins
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The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of song. Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses. Lomax began his career making field recordings of rural music for the Library of Congress and by the late 1930s brought his discoveries to radio, including Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Burl Ives.
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Alan Lomax: A Biography
- The Man Who Recorded the World
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 20 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2010-12-30
- Language: English
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