NPR's Jazz Profiles Podcast on iTunes

[Soul Stream]

This may be old news, but I just discovered some really cool hour-long podcasts you can download from iTunes for free. NPR's Jazz Profiles hosted by Nancy Wilson collects rare interviews with music and biography. This Jimmy Smith podcast had plenty of Jimmy in his own words (as do all the other podcasts). So far I've listened to the Melba Liston, Jimmy and Jackie but am looking forward to them all. I take long walks, and this is perfect for that.

[ghost of miles]

It's a good series--we air episodes occasionally on our weekday-afternoon jazz program. Are they still using musical excerpts longer than a minute? I envy them their legal ability to do a podcast.

[Lazaro Vega]

That show is going away. They've stopped producing new ones.

When you have time you can really go to work on producing script, recording interviews, and developing voice montages to present them, then layering music through and between the montages or stand alone announcements. Thought this is a great radio show. Blue Lake runs it Sunday evenings at 6 p.m. for now.

[ghost of miles]

But our legal understanding/interpretation down here, LV, is that even if the music is faded under a voice or otherwise drops down to a bed, it's still within the zone of accountability if you can hear it at all. Thus anything we produce that is podcast--some of our local arts segments, for example--has to observe a one-minute limit for music tracks, whether or not they're running in part as bed.

It is a good show and I'm sorry to hear that it's going away--that was the rumor earlier this year, but I hadn't seen any confirmation lately.