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Monday October 6Music from Africa takes center stage this time in the Global Village – including music from Ethio-jazz creator Mulatu Astatke; Algerian…

Monday 5.4.15Night Train celebrates the birthday of legendary bassist Ron Carter with music he did as a leader, and with Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Steve…

Monday, April 6Throughout April Global Village celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month with a wide array of world jazz artists and sounds, including a birthday…

Monday 4.6.15Night Train marks birthdays of cool jazz baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, pianist Andre Previn, guitarist Gene Bertoncini, and also…

The songs of zebra finches, long used as a model for how humans learn to use speech, get a little sloppy after a few drinks, a new study finds. Future research will look at how it affects learning.

Monday, November 5Global Village heads to South Africa for a program devoted to classic recordings and contemporary releases from that country. Highlights…

Monday 11.5.18As part of the November feature celebrating the centennial birthday of jazz organ pioneer and Parsons KS native Wild Bill Davis, Night Train…

Haysville’s Dorner Park is expected to build the first Angel of Hope Memorial in Kansas.The four-foot memorials, first commissioned in 1994, are intended…

Monday, November 4Night Train marks birthdays of Texas Roadhouse Blues and Americana artist Delbert McClinton (with music from a fairly jazzy new album he…

Listener Brendan Shera of Queens, N.Y., plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.