I heard it on NPR Artists on NPR
The list below contains links to NPR coverage of selected artists featured on the CDs in the I heard it on NPR series: Ladies Jazz It Up, One World Many Voices, Singers, Songs & Sessions, Down to the Roots, Shake These Blues, At Home in the World and Jazz for Blue Nights.
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Ladies Jazz It Up Artists on NPR
Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan: 'After Hours'
NPR.org, June 21, 2005
Embraceable You
Anita O'Day
Anita O'Day: 'Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day'
NPR.org, June 22, 2005
Love Me or Leave Me
Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee
All Things Considered, January 22, 2002
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
Ella Fitzgerald
Remembering Jazz Legend Ella Fitzgerald
The Tavis Smiley Show, April 23, 2004
It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Music Collection on History of Jazz Vocalist
Morning Edition, August 17, 1998
Some Other Spring
Etta Jones
Etta Jones Obituary
Morning Edition, October 17, 2001
Don’t Go to Strangers
Dinah Washington
Sampling Selections from Jazz Label Mosaic
Fresh Air, Mar 11, 2005
Teach Me Tonight
Carmen McRae
Carmen McRae
Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, May 1985
The Best Is Yet to Come
Shirley Horn
Legendary Jazz Singer, Pianist Shirley Horn Dies
All Things Considered, October 21, 2005
But Beautiful
Carla Cook
Jazz Profiles from NPR: The Standards
Jazz Profiles, April 10, 2002
Inner City Blues
Karrin Allyson
Coltrane Remembered
Morning Edition, June 1, 2001
Say It (Over and Over Again)
Diana Krall
Diana Krall, Singing Her Own Song
Morning Edition, November 26, 2004
I Love Being Here With You
D.D. Bridgewater, M. McPartland, N. Wilson
The NPR Jazz Divas
Talk of the Nation, January 21, 2002
Almost Like Being In Love
One World Many Voices Artists on NPR
Souad Massi
Souad Massi's Algerian Folk-Pop
All Things Considered, September 28, 2004
Deb (Heart Broken)
Tinariwen
Tinariwen Makes Music a Powerful Weapon
All Things Considered, October 27, 2004
Oualahila Ar Tesninam
Emeline Michel
Emeline Michel, the 'Queen of Haitian Song'
The Tavis Smiley Show, November 16, 2004
Bél Kongo
Eva Cassidy
'People Get Ready'
Morning Edition, August 26, 2003
People Get Ready
The Melodians
Box Set Charts Reggae History
All Things Considered, January 5, 2005
Rivers of Babylon
Miriam Makeba
South Africa's Miriam Makeba: 'Reflections'
The Tavis Smiley Show, June 22, 2004
The Retreat Song (Jikele Emaweni)
Caetano Veloso
Brazilian Songwriter Caetano Veloso
Fresh Air from WHYY, December 10, 2002
13 de Maio
Lila Downs
Mexican-American Singer Lila Downs
All Things Considered, July 5, 2004
Dignificada
Sweet Honey In The Rock
various stories including ‘On Sacred Ground’ 1996, Top 300 Songs list, and features on solo projects of individuals in the group
Sitting on Top of the World
Patti Smith
Intersections: Patti Smith, Poet Laureate of Punk
Morning Edition, April 12, 2004
Jubilee
GreenJolly
The Tradition of the Protest Song
Weekend Edition - Sunday, January 2, 2005
Razom Nas Bahato
Warsaw Village Band
Warsaw Village Band: 'I Had A Lover'
All Songs Considered, Feb 17, 2004
Cranes
Rosanne Cash
Singer Rosanne Cash
Fresh Air from WHYY, June 23, 2003
Save the Country
Singers, Songs & Sessions Artists on NPR
Save It for a Rainy Day The Jayhawks
Hollywood Kasey Chambers
War Jonatha Brooke
Sweetness Dan Bern & the IJBC
Eenie Meenie Big Lazy
For You Duncan Sheik
Just Can't Last Natalie Merchant
The Cranes Patty Larkin
She Said It Was Destiny Richard Thompson
Will You Remember Me? Rosanne Cash
Gilbert Calexico
Harbor Vienna Teng
One Moment More Mindy Smith
Sail Away Randy Newman
Down to the Roots Artists on NPR
Ollabelle
Morning Edition, March 23, 2004
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Morning Edition, April 26, 2002
Lucinda Williams
Morning Edition, July 3, 2003
Ralph Stanley
Fresh Air, July 15, 2002
Nickel Creek
All Things Considered, Sept. 27, 2002
Alabama Sacred Harp Convention
All Things Considered, Dec. 5, 2003
Gillian Welch
Day to Day, Sept. 2, 2003
Gillian Welch
All Things Considered, July 5, 2003
Alison Krauss
Morning Edition, Feb. 15, 2002
Norah Jones
Fresh Air, Feb. 19, 2004
Norah Jones
All Things Considered, Feb. 10, 2004
Norah Jones
Morning Edition, Feb. 24, 2003
Emmylou Harris
Creators at Carnegie, June 5, 2004
Emmylou Harris
All Things Considered
Shelby Lynne
Fresh Air, Sept. 26, 2003
Shelby Lynne
All Things ConsideredMay 2, 2000
The Blind Boys of Alabama
All Things Considered, Dec. 17, 2003
The Blind Boys of Alabama
The Tavis Smiley Show, Dec. 25, 2002
Shake These Blues Artists on NPR
Bessie Smith
Fresh Air, July 1, 2003
Bessie Smith
Jazz Profiles
Muddy Waters
Fresh Air, July 11, 2003
Muddy Waters
Morning Edition, Oct. 17, 2002
Muddy Waters
Fresh Air, Oct. 5, 2000
Mississippi Fred McDowell
All Songs Considered, Aug. 5, 2002
Bonnie Raitt
Weekend Edition, May 4, 2002
Bonnie Raitt
Fresh Air, May 1, 2002
Alvin Youngblood Heart
Fresh Air, Feb. 20, 2003
Alvin Youngblood Heart
Otis Taylor
Weekend Edition Sunday, July 6, 2003
Otis Taylor
Fresh Air, Aug. 16, 2001
Buddy Guy
All Things Considered, Sept. 21, 2003
Buddy Guy
Weekend Edition Sunday, July 29, 2001
T-Bone Walker
Fresh Air, Oct. 21, 2003
Robert Johnson
All Things Considered, Oct. 31, 2001
Robert Johnson
Morning Edition, August 17, 2001
Robert Johnson
All Things Considered, June 5, 2000
John Lee Hooker
Weekend Edition Saturday, June 23, 2001
John Lee Hooker
Morning Edition, June 22, 2001
B.B. King
Morning Edition, Dec. 27, 2002
Shemekia Copeland
Weekend Edition Saturday, Oct. 7, 2000
Susan Tedeschi
All Things Considered, Oct. 30, 1999
At Home in the World Artists on NPR
Bebel Gilberto
Weekend Edition Saturday, July 17, 2004
Bebo Valdes
Fresh Air, Jan. 7, 2002
Orchestra Baobab
Day to Day, May 7, 2004
Tribalistas
All Songs Considered, May 19, 2003
Lila Downs
All Things Considered, July 5, 2004
Edith Piaf
All Things Considered, Dec. 18, 2001
Paolo Conte
All Things Considered, March 6, 2001
Amalia Rodrigues
Morning Edition, April 5, 2001
Ali Farka Toure
All Songs Considered, October 7, 2001
Ry Cooder
All Things Considered, Jan. 27, 2003
Youssou N'Dour
Day ot Day, July 2, 2004
Ravi Shankar
Fresh Air, Nov. 30, 2001
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Morning Edition, Feb. 13, 2004
Cassandra Wilson
The Tavis Smiley Show, Nov. 3, 2003
Angelique Kidjo
The Tavis Smiley Show, June 17, 2004
Jazz for Blue Nights Artists on NPR
Mile Davis
Morning Edition, May 25, 2001
Sarah Vaughan
The Tavis Smiley Show, March 26, 2004
Patricia Barber
All Things Considered, Sept. 17, 2002
Bill Charlap
Fresh Air, Jan. 8, 2001
Ron Carter
Fresh Air, August 22, 2003
Diane Reeves
All Things Considered, Sept. 10, 2003
Tommy Flanagan
All Things Considered, Nov. 18, 2001
Cassandra Wilson
The Tavis Smiley Show, Nov. 3, 2003
