Explores the career of pianist Wynton Kelly.

Jazz works titled with female names.

Presents vocal and instrumental versions of 7 jazz standards.

Explores the career of drummer Mel Lewis.

Jazz intrumentals and vocals about birds.

An hour-long conversation with Andres Resendez, history professor at UC Davis, and author of, The Other Slavery, The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. It tells the little-known story of the enslavement of countless native people in the Americas, including the US. This slavery lasted into the 20th Century and helped provide the foundation for capitalism in the US.

This is Part TWO of the history of San Francisco. The town that grew from 16 houses on sand dunes in 1850 to the largest city on the West Coast in only 30 years. Gray Brechin explains in the first chapter of his book Imperial San Francisco how the gold rush connected two major factors for city building: A swelling of the population and the growth of investment capital. But the mix of people and money was lacking another major ingredient: water. As the first wave of destruction of California was brought about by gold mining, the second wave was caused by the damming of rivers, and the flooding of land for reservoirs, even eventually inside the protected space of Yosemite National Park. Brechin also explains the connection between the building of Los Angles and the draining of farmland in the Owens Valley. He ends with an intriguing sketch of the creation of the Bureau of Reclamation. They made the quest for water a national issue. The Bureau claimed to supply water to small farmers but ended up becoming the greatest builder of cities. And as this program from the TUC Radio archives is re-broadcast in early December 2022, an extraordinary news item from November 17 headlines that: “The largest dam demolition in history is approved for a Western river. ... Two weeks ago U.S. regulators approved a plan to demolish four dams on the Klamath river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat. That would be the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the world when it goes forward.”

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org

Heather Hanwell, Kate Laing, and "Hannah" are members of Ontario School Safety, a group of Ontario residents, mostly parents, who are committed to ensuring that the province's schools are safe enough for students, teachers, and other education workers, in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. They talk about Ontario's response to COVID in schools so far, about the many things the province should be doing but isn't, and about the legal challenge that they plan to launch to get the provincial government to make schools safer.

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After a brief update from Colorado Springs, Colorado on the Club Q massacre; our special show for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday break features famed writer-biographer James Gavin (most recently of George Michael) reading Truman Capote's classic seasonal short story "One Christmas." It's our first holiday gift to you this week when you discover "This Way Out": the world's audio oasis for queer news and culture.

DIANA WANYONYI INTERVIEWS WORLD CITIZEN AND KENYAN POLITICAL ANALYST MAIMUNA MWIDAU ABOUT HER OBSERVATIONS AND WORK FOR DEMOCRACY AND GENDER PARITY IN HER OWN COUNTRY AND OTHERS IN ASIA AND AFRICA.

SIPS – On this episode we discuss Glendronach, Benriach & Balvenie. It’s a good day in the neighborhood. Nealy a full sweep of 5’s in this flight. Dr. Rachel Barrie is making magic at Glendronach and you get to taste the magic. There were no less than 287 different tasting adjectives used on this episode. We even helped you to actually find some of these rare gems in the episode notes as well.

This time on The Children's Hour, we learn about climate change from Dr. David Gutzler, professor emeritus at the University of New Mexico in the Earth and Planetary Sciences department with a specialization in climate science. We learn what causes climate change, and what we can expect in the future if we make no changes. It is especially concerning to children that many adults are not taking the actions needed to stop catastrophes. Dr. Gutzler helps us understand why changing behavior and technologies to address the warming planet, is so difficult for many to adopt. The Kids Crew wanted to know how they can help save animals from extinction due to climate change, and how they can get global decision-makers to address the crisis of their lifetimes. We also find out about melting ice sheets, and how the added water to our oceans will impact communities worldwide. Kids are leaders in the climate change movement today. We hear music honoring our beautiful planet, the activists who are standing up for future generations. This show is mixed with inspiring music to motivate listeners to care about our Planet Earth.

Desert blues out of the Sahara including a track from the very first Tinariwen studio album; high energy African-style reggae with a new song by Catalunya's Sinergia; more sounds from across Spain's autonomous communities; an hour of the twangy jungle psychedelia called chicha, plus some guitar-driven and organ-driven cumbia

Our opening prayer “O Heaveny Grid” is from the Firesign Theatre - dedicated to the late and deceased COP27 climate conference held in Egypt this month. Katrin Ganswindt from the German enviro group Urgewald reports oil, gas, and coal companies have announced expansion enough to break the future. From Massachusetts, expert glaciologist Julie Brigham-Grette reports ice collapse in the latest Cryosphere 2022 report.

Golden Oldies (60s, 70s, 80s, 90s)

We're all around the musical map again this week on Backbeat from Django to Wolf. We have a bit of an extended stay in Memphis, featuring a couple of cool cats. We also get new music from the sensational Billy Strings.

(1.) Distant Place - Yungmorpheus (2.) Spare Change - Freddie Marr and Thrice Third (3.) Contraband - Teflon (4.) Culture pt. 2 - Teru (5.) Shugah Shorty - Organized Konfusion ft. Hurricane G (6.) SuperDuck - Kyran Scott (7.) Poetry In Motion - Plasthic Slash & Rapsom' (8.) Just Maintain - Xzibit ft. J-Ro and Hurricane G (9.) Back 2 The Basics - Soulrac ft. Masta Ace (10.) Ain't Now Way - Fresh Kils ft. Phoenix Pagliacci (11.) Mad Men remix - Midcentury Modern, Evitan, Newselph, DJ Because (12.) Spanish Harlem - Cocoa Brovaz ft. Tony Touch and Hurricane G (13.) Long Trip Short Road - ReziN8 (14.) Get Yours - Homeboy Sandman (15.) Outpost31 - Swamp Thing (16.) Gusto - obrixdo ft. Goldfieri (17.) Need A Light - Paradox & Reflex the Architect ft. Moka Only (18.) justanothaNtrolude - Mello メロ