Best New American Songbook Podcasts (2024)

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Richard Herfeld | Vocalist Extraordinaire 1:03:47

28d ago1:03:47

1:03:47

Welcome everybody to the Hot Jazz Network podcast. My name is George Cole and I'm your host. In this episode, I interview my guest, vocalist extraordinaire, Richard Herfeld. Here’s a little information about Richard and links to explore more... Richard Herfeld is a crooner from Germany specializing in the music of the 1920s - 1950s. For the last 15…

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Eric Schoenberg - Schoenberg Guitars | Classic Steel String Guitars 57:50

4M ago57:50

57:50

From Sourced Network Productions, it’s the Hot Jazz Network, with host, George Cole. Welcome everyone to the Hot Jazz Network podcast. I'm your host George Cole. Today, our very special guest is the one and only Eric Schoenberg, proprietor of Schoenberg Guitars and the Dean of Acoustic Guitars in America. Eric is primarily a finger-style guitarist …

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Don Neely - Royal Society Jazz Orchestra | Bandleader 38:14

5M ago38:14

38:14

From Sourced Network Productions, it’s the Hot Jazz Network, with host, George Cole. Welcome, welcome everybody to the Hot Jazz Network podcast. My name is George Cole and I'm your host. Today, we're interviewing, or having a conversation with, the one and only, Don Neely, bandleader of the Royal Society Jazz Orchestra. San Francisco jazz legend, T…

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Jonathan Stout - Bandleader | Guitarist | Dancer 1:14:52

5M ago1:14:52

1:14:52

From Sourced Network Productions, it’s the Hot Jazz Network, with host, George Cole. Today on our show, we have an incredible guitarist, but he's much more than that. He's a historian. He can help you get out of a parking ticket as well. And I personally feel that his left pinky should be enshrined in the Smithsonian. He's bringing, shining a light…

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Bruce Forman - Guitarist | Educator | Arranger | Storyteller 58:40

5M ago58:40

58:40

From the Sourced Network Productions, it's the Hot Jazz Network Podcast with host George Cole. Here's a great story to get you started on the episode with Bruce Forman, recounting his early influences and how he found his life's path at the early age of 17 years old. From Bruce Forman My first jazz guitar player that I really remember loving was Ke…

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Matt Munisteri - Guitarist | Songwriter 1:09:24

5M ago1:09:24

1:09:24

Matt Munisteri: I had to steal a guitar back from airport employees who were stealing it from me, and I had to do that by sneaking out on the tarmac through a back door. It was just pre 9/11, coming back from a gig in Portugal. 9/11 really changed things. Prior to that, guitars really would disappear. I know Frizzell lost guitars, at least one. I k…

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David "Dawg" Grisman: Mandolin Visionary; Founder - Acoustic Disc 55:56

5M ago55:56

55:56

David "Dawg" Grisman: Stéphane Grappelli told me that, when he and Django first met and started playing together in between sets at a big hotel in Paris, he said they were basically trying to imitate Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti. George Cole: Thank you. Thank you for saying that. Listeners out there in podcast land, that is a very important piece of i…

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Welcome to The Hot Jazz Network, with host George Cole 1:57

9M ago1:57

1:57

Hi, this is Hot Jazz guitarist, vocalist, and acoustic disc recording artist George Cole. I’m super excited to announce my new podcast “The Hot Jazz Network”. With my 40 years of experience in the music business, we are going to get to the bottom of what Hot Jazz is and just as important, what it is not. Join me as we take an in person backstage lo…

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Christian Zionists and the Feast of Tabernacles 11:30

5+ y ago11:30

11:30

GroundTruth's founder and CEO Charles Sennott traveled to Jerusalem to witness the traditional Jewish holiday Sukkot, or the Feast of the Tabernacles, as experienced by Christian Zionists, a group that comes around the idea that the return of Jews to the Holy Land and the establishment of the state of Israel are in accordance with Biblical prophecy…

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The New American Songbook: Nuevo Mariachi 24:13

6+ y ago24:13

24:13

For Omar Naré, mariachi is in his blood. His grandfather, a Mexican farm laborer, brought the music with him to California’s Central Valley, where he settled his family. Omar grew up hearing mariachi at family get-togethers and had a childhood career as a mariachi singer. After a hiatus and period of disillusionment with the music of his childhood,…

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The New American Songbook: Rhythms from Cyprus 24:09

6+ y ago24:09

24:09

At age 20, percussionist George Lernis sought to travel halfway around the world from Cyprus, to follow in the footsteps of the American jazz masters. He navigated a series of obstacles, and once his student visa expired, he faced an even more difficult challenge: qualifying for an O-1 visa — a special designation for “extraordinary artists.” It’s …

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The New American Songbook: Making It In The HMI 28:29

6+ y ago28:29

28:29

HMI stands for Haitian Music Industry, but its artists and fans are spread around the globe. Vladimir Mead immigrated to Boston 10 years ago at age 16. Since then, he’s built up a music career under the name Masterbrain — largely through YouTube and Facebook. His Creole freestyles and music videos have accumulated tens of thousands of hits, but he’…

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The New American Songbook: For My Ayeeyo 27:36

6+ y ago27:36

27:36

Somalia is the “land of poets,” a place where love, law, war and peace have been carried out in verse for centuries. This is a story of what happens when that tradition is driven far from the dry soil and open skies that inspire the poets’ metaphors. Two young Somali-American women in Boston are drawn together by poetry, and use it to connect with …

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The New American Songbook: Cambodia Reincarnate 29:29

6+ y ago29:29

29:29

During the Cambodian genocide in the 1970s, nearly all of the country’s musicians were killed. But in a strange twist of fate, music saved the life of a Cambodian boy named Sovann. Now a U.S. citizen in Lowell, Mass., he’s trying to make sure Cambodia’s music traditions live on. Across town, a 9-year-old boy seems uniquely gifted to do just that.Ab…

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Making Music in the Syrian Diaspora 27:05

7y ago27:05

27:05

Ahmad Naffory fell in love with the guitar in a Syrian grocery store, but he didn't know that his music would cause him to flee his home for another continent. Strangers in a strange land, Ahmad and his bandmates — the bandit poets of Assa'aleek — use their music to remember the homes they left behind as they make their lives in a new world. Read m…

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GroundTruth

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Richard Herfeld | Vocalist Extraordinaire 1:03:47

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Eric Schoenberg - Schoenberg Guitars | Classic Steel String Guitars 57:50

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Don Neely - Royal Society Jazz Orchestra | Bandleader 38:14

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Jonathan Stout - Bandleader | Guitarist | Dancer 1:14:52

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Bruce Forman - Guitarist | Educator | Arranger | Storyteller 58:40

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Matt Munisteri - Guitarist | Songwriter 1:09:24

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David "Dawg" Grisman: Mandolin Visionary; Founder - Acoustic Disc 55:56

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Welcome to The Hot Jazz Network, with host George Cole 1:57

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Christian Zionists and the Feast of Tabernacles 11:30

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The New American Songbook: Nuevo Mariachi 24:13

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The New American Songbook: Rhythms from Cyprus 24:09

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The New American Songbook: Making It In The HMI 28:29

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The New American Songbook: For My Ayeeyo 27:36

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The New American Songbook: Cambodia Reincarnate 29:29

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Making Music in the Syrian Diaspora 27:05

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