KCCK's Soundtrack to the Struggle

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February 28, 2025 Soundtrack to the Struggle: A Great Day in Harlem
It’s 1958, and freelance photographer Art Kane is commissioned by Esquire magazine to shoot photos of jazz musicians for their upcoming “Golden Age of Jazz” feature. An avid music fan, Kane jumps at the chance. He puts the word out: Be at 17 126th St., Harlem, at 10 in the morning. His editors voiced concern. …
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February 27, 2025 Soundtrack to the Struggle: Ella Arrested
It’s 1955, and Ella Fitzgerald and her band take a break between sets at the Houston Music Hall. In her dressing room, Ella and her assistant, Georgiana Henry, chat and drink coffee, while over in the corner, Dizzy Gillespie and Illinois Jacquet shoot a quick game of craps. The door suddenly bursts open and five …
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February 26, 2025 Soundtrack to the Struggle: Charlie Haden
It’s 1968, and the Democratic National Convention erupts into violence. Rejection of a plankcondemning the Vietnam War sparks protests on the streets of Chicago. Bassist Charlie Haden,a vehement critic of the war, watches it all unfold. He is angry and disgusted, and he decidethat he must take action. Haden forms the Liberation Music Orchestra, an …
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February 25, 2025 Soundtrack to the Struggle: Harold Bradley, Jr.
Harold Bradley, Jr. was born two weeks before the Wall Street Crash. Times were tough, especially forBlacks in Chicago, but Harold found opportunities to learn and grow. Introduced by his mother, hetalked jazz with Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway, and studied art with legendary illustrator E. SimmsCampbell. Harold loved music. He was a gifted painter. …
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February 24, 2025 Soundtrack to the Struggle: Sun City
It’s 1985, and guitarist and activist Little Steven Van Zandt forms a supergroup to protestapartheid in South Africa. That country’s system of white minority rule and institutionalizedracial segregation was in place for nearly 50 years. Despite world-wide condemnation,embargos, and diplomatic isolation, the South African regime held firm. Van Zandt believed thisstubbornness led to apathy among …
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February 21, 2025 Soundtrack to the Struggle: Harlem Renaissance
It’s 1920, and the Jazz Age has begun. First sprouting in New Orleans, jazz music quickly spread as thousands of African Americans migrated from the Deep South to new opportunities in the North. Jazz found fertile ground in Harlem, where it became an integral element in the new social, cultural, and artistic movement taking root. …
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February 20, 2025 Soundtrack to the Struggle: Gary Bartz
It’s 1970, and saxophonist Gary Bartz forms his Ntu Troop. Named for the Bantu word for“unity,” this new group extended Bartz’s pioneering “soul-jazz.” Its music was a new kind offusion that melded hard bop, soul, funk, free jazz, and Afro-Cuban folk polyrhythms. Itsmessage was staunchly pro-African and anti-war. Bartz saw a direct connection between the …
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February 19, 2025 Soundtrack to the Struggle: Current Struggle
It’s June 1 st , 2020, and Jazz singer and activist Aaron Myers joins thousands of demonstrators inWashington, DC’s Lafayette Square. “I saw people running,” he related. “I started coughing andcrying.” Myers couldn’t think why security forces fired tear gas. Then he saw governmentofficials walking to a nearby church for a photo op. At that …
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February 18, 2025 Soundtrack to the Struggle: Folk Studio
Teaching the world through jazz. It’s 1961, and football star Harold Bradley, Jr. founds a cultural nexus. Two years earlier, Bradley left a championship NFL career to study art in Italy. The sports world thought he was crazy, but those who knew Bradley knew he loved painting more than football. He acquired a basement workshop …
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February 17, 2025 Soundtrack to the Struggle: Pullman Porters
At the turn of the 20th century, the phenomenon of the Pullman Porter caught the public’s imagination. A journey on a Pullman car summoned up images of romance and adventure. In a rigidly segregated society, Pullman Porters were probably the only African-Americans that most of white society ever truly interacted with. But there is an …
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FAQs about KCCK's Soundtrack to the Struggle:

How many episodes does KCCK's Soundtrack to the Struggle have?

The podcast currently has 101 episodes available.