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Willis Conover interview with Johnny Hodges

Description: Willis Conover interviews Johnny Hodges. The intended program and broadcaster are not stated.
Date: February 1955
Duration: 25 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #365-B, Interview with George Avakian

Description: Willis Conover interviews George Avakian. This recording only contains the interview, and not the full program.
Date: November 29, 1955
Duration: 14 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Pop Chronicles Interviews #6 - Tony Bennett

Description: Recording of John Gilliland interviewing Tony Bennett in Fort Worth, Texas. Gilliland later used this recording in the Pop Chronicles radio program series.
Date: April 15, 1956
Duration: 22 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Gilliland, John
Partner: UNT Music Library

Party

Description: Recording of Rune Lindblad's Party.
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Date: 1953/1954
Duration: 9 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Lindblad, Rune, 1923-1991
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interviews with June Christy, Nat "King" Cole, Ted Heath, and Bob Flanigan

Description: Willis Conover interviews June Christy, Nat "King" Cole, Ted Heath, and Bob Flanigan backstage at a performance at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C. The interview with Nat "King" Cole was likely used in Music USA program #520-B.
Date: May 1, 1956
Duration: 33 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Magazine of the Air "97": "A Short History of Jazz"

Description: A short Indonesian-language program on the history of jazz, including excerpts of recordings. "Magazine of the Air" was a weekly program of the Voice of America, broadcast on Tuesdays.
Date: August 18, 1959
Duration: 22 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library

Rhapsodic Variations

Description: Recording of Otto Luening's Rhapsodic Variations.
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Date: 1953/1954
Duration: 17 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996
Partner: UNT Music Library

Poem in Cycles and Bells

Description: Recording of Otto Luening's Poem in Cycles and Bells.
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Date: 1954
Duration: 14 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996
Partner: UNT Music Library

Fantasy in Space

Description: This is another in a series of pieces Luening made by recording himself playing flute, and then while listening on earphones, taped a second flute part over the first, and so forth.
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Date: 1952
Duration: 2 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996
Partner: UNT Music Library

Invention in 12 Notes

Description: Recording of Otto Luening's Invention in 12 Notes.
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Date: 1952
Duration: 3 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996
Partner: UNT Music Library

Low Speed

Description: The work is made around tape recordings of Luening's improvisations on the flute. The flute recordings were transposed through change of tape playback speed and transformed through "tape recorder feedback".
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Date: 1952
Duration: 3 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #191-B, Interview with Marian McPartland

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, including tune selections and an interview with Marian McPartland
Date: June 1, 1955
Duration: 59 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Louis Armstrong interview, second hour

Description: The second of five hours of Louis Armstrong talking at length about his life and career. In this hour, Armstrong discusses the Hot Five and scat singing, interspersed with musical selections.
Date: July 13, 1956
Duration: 58 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Louis Armstrong interview, first hour

Description: The first of five hours of Louis Armstrong talking at length about his life and career. In this hour, Armstrong discusses his early life and career, interspersed with musical selections.
Date: July 13, 1956
Duration: 58 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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The Orchestra of Washington, D.C., September 10, 1952

Description: The Orchestra of Washington, D.C., as heard on Willis Conover's radio program.
Date: September 10, 1952
Duration: 29 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: The Orchestra of Washington, D.C.
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Dizzy Gillespie at Birdland

Description: A French-language program featuring Dizzy Gillespie performing at Birdland, along with an interview with John Hammond.
Date: July 2, 1956
Duration: 19 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 & Roberts, Bill
Partner: UNT Music Library
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