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Adagio for Strings (Choral Version)
Al Green: Let's Stay Together
Al Young & Charles L. Robinson Interview with Francesca Rheannon at Writers’ Voice
Al Young & Denny Zeitlin with Michael Krasny (19 March 2008)
Al Young & Joan Gelfand in conversation with Jennifer Stone
Al Young at Grace Cathedral
Al Young in Pasadena
Al Young Mini-Interview with Don Mager in Charlotte, NC
Al Young on New Day Jazz at KDVS-FM, Davis, CA
Al Young on News & Notes: Farai Chideya
Al Young reads for the North Beach Poetry Crawl (2009)
Al Young with Michael Krasny (28 December 2006)
Al Young: Whittier College Commencement 2009
Al-Jazeera English
Amazing Grace: Victor Wooten
American Book Awards 2007 | C-SPAN Book Weekend
B.O.O.K. (Best of Our Knowledge)
Barry White: Practice What You Preach
BBC
Birdland: Weather Report
Blue Train | John Coltrane
Bourgeois Blues: Leadbelly
California Report (2005)
California Report (2006)
California Report (2007)
California Report (2008)
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
CBC
Center for Creative Voices in Media
Charles Simic: Confessions of a Poet Laureate
Coast to Coast AM
Cold Sweat
Cold Sweat: Mongo Santamaria
Compared to What: Les McCann, Eddie Harris
Cover to Cover with Jack Foley
David Harvey’s Lectures on Capitalism
Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers
Desi Arnaz Sings 'I Love Lucy'
Deutsche Welle
Dima: Jazz Vocalist
Do You Know the Way to San José?
Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing
Donna Lee ~ Victor Wooten & Steve Bailey
Donna Lee ~ Victor Wooten & Steve Bailey
Dorka Keehn: Keehn on Art (KKGN Green AM 960)
Electric Company (Opening Theme)
Fela
Forest Flower: Charles Lloyd
Frankie & Johnny: Cecil Brown with NPR’s Steve Innskeep
Fresh Air
Georges Brassens
Giant Steps (Scored)
Goodnight, Irene: Leadbelly
Grandma’s Hands: Bill Withers
Gymnopédie #1: Erik Satie
Gymnopédie #2: Erik Satie
Happy Birthday to You (Martin Luther King)
Harlem on My Mind: Ethel Waters
Herbie Hancock and Oscar Peterson
Hiromi Uehara & Chick Corea Live in Tokyo
Hit That Jive, Jack! (1943)
I Believe I Can Fly
I Just Called to Say I Love You
I Love Lucy Theme
I Told You I Love You, Now Get Out!
Information Liberation
InkSlam Winners 2009: Charlotte, NC
Ishmael Reed Plays Tadd Dameron
It's a Family Affair
It’s Not Easy Being Green: Kermit the Frog
It’s Not Easy Being Green: Ray Charles
J.S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Jack Foley: Cover to Cover KPFA Podcasts
James Brown in Conversation with Michael Tilson Thomas
Jazz Idiom: Francesca Rheannon interviews Al Young & Charles L. Robinson
Jelly Roll Morton ~ Hesitation Blues
Jimmy Cliff: You Can Get It If You Really Want To
Just the Way You Are: Billy Joel
King Porter Stomp ~ Jelly Roll Morton
Koko: Charlie Parker & His Bebop Boys
KQED Forum
La Historia de Un Amor: Eydie Gormé y El Trio Los Panchos
La Historia de Un Amor: Luis Miguel
Langston Hughes: Democracy Now!
Lazy Bird: Trane, Lee Morgam, Curtis Fuller
Le Grand Tango: Astor Piazzolla & Gidon Kremer
Lean On Me: Bill Withers
Leon Thomas: The Creator Has a Master Plan
Let’s Get It On: Marvin Gaye
Love and Happiness: Al Green
Maiden Voyage
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Parting Words
Mary Lou Williams Interview, 1976
Mary Lou Williams: Gloria
Mary Lou Williams: Roll ‘Em
Mexico Radio
Midnight at the Oasis
Moose the Moose: Charlie Parker
Morning Edition: Renee Montagne interviews Al Young
Morning Show KPFA
Nashville Cats: The Lovin' Spoonful
Net Neutrality: The Communicators
Never Been to Spain
New York City: Leadbelly
Newspapers Online from Around the World
Nigel Kennedy: Winter III (Vivaldi's Four Seasons)
Nothing from Nothing: Billy Preston
NPR’s Morning Edition: Al Young’s Poet Laureate Appointment
O Mary, Don't You Weep: Aretha
Oh Happy Day: Edwin Hawkins Singers
On the Media
Pacifica Radio
Pandora
Pannonica: Thelonious Monk
Peter B. Collins
Poetry Man: Phoebe Snow
Poetry Off the Shelf
Prison Labor (Made in the USA)
PRI~Public Radio International
Proud Mary: Ike & Tina
Radio Nederlands
Radio Paris
Respect Yourself: Staple Singers
Richard Pryor: Cecil Brown and Al Young with Rain Pryor
Ring of Fire: Johnny Cash
Romeo & Juliet: Charles Latshaw conducts Prokofiev
Shotgun: Jr. Walker & the All-Stars
Sidewinder: Lee Morgan
Sir Duke
Smooth Operator: Sade
Snoop Dogg: Riders on the Storm
Someday My Prince Will Come
Song for My Father: Horace Silver
Sonny Rollins: The Bridge (Jazz Video Podcast)
Spanish from Spain: Live Streaming Radio
St. Thomas: Sonny Rollins
Still in Love with You
Studs Terkel: Talking to Myself
Symphony Cast
The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald
The State We're In
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Theme from Shaft: Isaac Hayes
Tighten Up: Archie Bell & the Drells
Time After Time: Cyndi Lauper
Unobstructed with Alaina R. Alexander
WBAI Cat Radio Café
What’s It All About, Alfie?
Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (Martin Luther King)
Wild Sanctuary | Bernie Krause
Winter Soldier (Iraq/Afghanistan War Veterans & Civilians)
Woolly Bully
World Wide Word Radio
Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon
Writers' Sanctuary with Kim McMillon
You Really Got a Hold on Me: Smokey Robinson
You Sexy Thing: Hot Chocolate
ZĂłcalo Radio | 89.3 KPCC-FM, Los Angeles
Poetry Treasury
About Poetry: Northern California
Al Young at National Book Festival 2005
An Evening with Poets Ishmael Reed & Al Young
Authors@Google: Al Young
Basics of Writing Poetry
Beau Blue’s Poem Animations
Billy Collins: Forgetfulness (An Animation)
Billy Collins: The Dead (Animation)
Brave New Voices
Carol Muske-Dukes Reads Ann Stanford
Casa Poema
Chinese Poetry
Cities of Refuge
Dana Gioia Online
Denise Levertov: Six Poems (Lannan Foundation)
Denise Levertov: What Were They Like?
Dissident Writers Need Our Help
Don Mager.Org | Poems & Essays on Literature & Music
Dylan Thomas: The Refusal to Mourn
Favorite Poem Project
For Al Young: Four Views (Joseph McNair)
For Gwendolyn Brooks (Lamont B. Stepto)
Gary Gach: What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
Harryette Mullen on Bob Kaufman
History of Poetry
How Does a Poem Mean?
How the Rainbow Works
In My Craft or Sullen Art
In the Moonlight a Worm (Haiku Lesson Site)
John Haynes: Winner of the 2006 Costa Poetry Award
John Oliver Simon translates Elena Cross' "Vacantes"
Just Write: Christopher Waldrop
Kenneth Rexroth
Langston Hughes: Democracy Now!
Lord Byron: The Mark Steel Lectures, 1 of 3
Lord Byron: The Mark Steel Lectures, 2 of 3
Lord Byron: The Mark Steel Lectures, 3 of 3
Mark on the Wall
Meryl Streep & Katie Couric Do Poetry
Mi Poesias Magazine
Miller Williams: Poetry and the People Who Write It
Need a Poem?
Negritude | La Négritude
Nicolás Guillén (1902-1989)
Norton Poets Online
Notes on the Future of Love
Pablo Neruda: Poema 20 (en español)
Poem Reader’s Checklist
Poems and Poetics | Jerome Rothenberg
Poetry & Poets in Rags
Poetry 180
Poetry Alive!
Poetry at the Ruskin: A History
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Poetry Foundation | Ruth Lilly Fellowships
Poetry International Web
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Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poetry Off the Shelf
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Poetry Speaks: Expanded
Poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Poetry
Prose Poem
Prosody
Rhyme Renaissance at Harvard (Baba Brinkman 2006)
Rhyming Dictionary & Thesaurus
River of Words
Robert Pinsky's Weekly Poetry Forum at Slate
Shakespeare
Shampoo: SF Bay Area Poetry Events
T.S. Eliot: The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot: The Wasteland
Teaching Poetry and Humor
Tribute: Peace, Hope & 9/11 — San Francisco Voices
Types of Poetry
Ways and Ways to San José
What Is a Prose Poem?
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Al Young at Library Thing
Al Young in Concert with Paolo Fresu and Furio Castri (Milano 1997)
Al Young in India 2005
Al Young in Pasadena
Al Young in the L.A. Times
Al Young on Jack Spicer and Silence (Chicago Review 1970)
Al Young’s “Ponce de LeĂłn: A Morning Walk” on NPR’s Writer’s Almanac
Al Young’s Historic CAC Dot Guv Site Revisited
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Al Young: The Nathaniel Mackey Interview (Melus 1978)
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Blues & Democracy: Al Young & the Iowa Blues All-Stars
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California’s Poet Laureate Steps Out
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Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Letters and Life
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First Person, Present Tense Revisited
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Frame After Frame: Herman Leonard’s Jazz Photos
Getting an A on an English Paper
Global Change Master Directory
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Go Solar California
Governor Schwarzenegger Appoints Al Young
Guantánamo and Its Aftermath
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Guide to Grammar & Writing
Guide to Grammar and Style: Jack Lynch
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JazzTimes’ Top 50 Picks of 2008
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Just Who Is Al Young?
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Literary Criticism
London Review of Books
Love (Incorporating Hate) | 1966
Manliness and Living with a Woman
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Peru’s Fujimori Gets Lengthy Prison Sentence
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Poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Poetry
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Prison: More Than One in Every 100 American Adults Behind Bars
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Queen Calafia’s Island | Kevin Starr
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Saroyan Centennial (1908-2008)
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Shampoo: SF Bay Area Poetry Events
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Speak Out California!
Speechless the Magazine
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Stuff White People Like
Syntax: What It Is
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Ted Joans (1928-2003)
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Top Ten African American Literature Anthologies
Tribute: Peace, Hope & 9/11 — San Francisco Voices
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Wild Sanctuary | Bernie Krause
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A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: Randy Newman
A Man Named McCoy
Al Young & Ishmael Reed: Legacy Conversations 2008
Al Young at Google
Al Young at National Book Festival 2005
Al Young Mini-Interview with Don Mager in Charlotte, NC
Al Young with Jazz at South Pasadena Library
Alan Watts: Life and Music
Albert Einstein Quotes
Aldous Huxley: Doors of Perception
Alison Krause Live
Allison Crowe: Time After Time
Amazing Grace: Victor Wooten
American Book Awards 2007 | C-SPAN Book Weekend
An LSD Death: Laura Archera Huxley
Anita O’Day: Indestructible
Anthropology | Bud Powell
Archie Shepp: Mama Rose
Armando’s Rumba|Autumn Leaves: Chick Corea & Bobby McFerrin
Astor Piazzolla & Yo Yo Ma (Libertango)
Authors@Google: Al Young
Bad, Bad Whiskey (Amos Milburn)
Benny Hill: Poetry & Jazz, 1972
Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit
Billy Collins: Forgetfulness (An Animation)
Billy Collins: The Dead (Animation)
Birdland: Weather Report
Bizet's Carmen
Black Stacey
Bluesette: Stevie Wonder & Toots Thielemans
Body and Soul: Archie Shepp Quintet
Brenda Got a Big Ole Butt: LL Cool J
Bud Powell in Paris, 1959
Bunny Briggs & Charlie Barnet
Chakra Meditation
Change for the Better
Chinua Achebe at Harvard 2007
Consciousness
Cousin Mary: Stanley Jordan
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
Dina Hardy
Dissident Writers Need Our Help
Django (Modern Jazz Quartet)
Donna Summer: On the Radio
Doris Day's 'Midnight at the Oasis'
Duke Ellington & the Harlem Renaissance
Dylan Thomas: The Refusal to Mourn
E=mc2: Eintein’s Special Theory of Relativity
Emily Remler (1957-1990): Red Blouse Bossa Nova
For Al Young: Four Views (Joseph McNair)
For Gwendolyn Brooks (Lamont B. Stepto)
FORA.tv
Fritjof Capra: The Systems View of Life
Future of Jazz (1959)
Giant Steps: McCoy Tyner
Goldberg Variations (Aria) | J.S. Bach
Harlem Renaissance (A Student View)
Henry Miller: Bathroom Monologue 1
Henry Miller: Bathroom Monologue 2
Herbie Hancock, Billy Cobham, Ron Carter
Hip Hop Violin: Paul Dateh
Hiromi Uehara & Chick Corea Live in Tokyo
Hit That Jive, Jack!
In My Craft or Sullen Art
Ishmael Reed Plays Tadd Dameron
It Don’t Mean a Thing
J.L. Hudson Implosion 1998
J.S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Jack Kerouac interviewed in French
James Brown and Pavarotti
Joe Pass
John Coltrane (My Favorite Things, 1961)
John Haynes: Winner of the 2006 Costa Poetry Award
John Lee Hooker (Boom Boom Boom Boom)
Johnny Nash: I Can See Clearly Now
Joy Harjo (Poet, Guitarist, Saxophonist)
Juan Felipe Herrera
Justin Kaplan: The Cruelty of George W. Bush
Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea Play Mozart
Keith Jarrett: Tokyo Solo Concert Encore
Kenneth Rexroth
Killing Me Softly: Roberta Flack
Kronos Quartet with Tanya Tagaq
La India & Eddie Palmieri (Mi Primera Rumba)
La Mazacote
Langston Hughes & Louis Armstrong: Brief Bios
Lunch Poems: Al Young
Makin’ Whoopee: Peggy Lee & Toots Thielemans
Mama Told Me Not to Come: Three Dog Night
Marc Silber Opens for Steve Earle at Great American Music Hall
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Parting Words
Marvin Gaye: Sexual Healing
Meditation
Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)
Miles Davis and John Coltrane
Miller’s Tale (from Rap Canterbury Tales)
Muppets & Diz
My Block (Teaching Kids Poetry, Savanah, GA)
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
Naomi Shihab Nye
Nickole Brown reads from SISTER
Nigel Kennedy (Winter: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons)
No Room for Squares
Orrin Keepnews Meets the Saxophone Colussus
Otis Redding: I’ve Been Loving You
Pablo Neruda: Poema 20 (en español)
Paco de Lucia: Tango
Paco Lucia & Chick Corea
Persis Karim: Prose by Iranian Women of Exile and Immigration
Pharoah Sanders: The Creator Has a Master Plan
Pharoah Sanders: Thembi
Political Science 101: Randy Newman
Quarterlife Crisis: After College, What?
Red Hen Press: Her History
Rhyme Renaissance at Harvard (Baba Brinkman 2006)
Robert Bly: A Gathering of Men
Saint Monk (Orrin Keepnews)
Screamin Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on You
Slim Gaillard Trio (1946) on Night Music
Sly & the Family Stone (1970)
Smokey Robinson on Def Poetry Jam
Sonny Rollins and David Sanborn
Sonny Rollins Remembers Bud Powell
Sophisticated Lady
Spain ~ Hiromi Uehara/Chick Corea
Spain ~ Naoko Terai
Spain: Chick Corea & Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Stanley Jordan: What’s Goin’ On
Still Crazy After All These Years
Sweet Soul Music: Arthur Conley
T.S. Eliot: The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock
Tango
Teaching Poetry and Humor
Tell Him: The Exciters
Tenderness of the Wolves (Stef Penney)
Time After Time (Aussie style)
Toots Thielemans
Try a Little Tenderness (London 1966)
Walking the Dog: Rufus Thomas
What’s Goin’ On: Marvin Gaye
Who the Hell Is Al Young?
Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam
You Can Call Me Al (Paul Simon)
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