Radio 586 AZ Roots

Series produced by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA

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Music Mix from the Desert Southwest

Making Arizona Musicians, and music tastes of our region, more accessible to world media. Interviewing musicians, playing their music, and the music they like. From the Phoenix Federation of Musicians Local 586 Union Hall Radio Studio, streaming on Radio586.net 24/7.


86 Pieces

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ManPurse and Mike Breen New Releases. It is refreshing to have new fall CD releases from Arizona artists, perhaps the first within our region sent ...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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Desert Doug Guitar Jazz no. 10. Our go-to man for guitar in the desert southwest turns in his 10th show in this series, Vintage sounds from the und...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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Arizona Musicians letter C, cont'd. Just when ya think we’re done with the letter C, we’re not. Thanks to Phoenix pianist Beth Lederman (who appear...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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Arizona Musicians letter C, cont'd. We continue our gradual pace thru our alphabetized collection, this episode hear Chris Champion, Bob Corritore,...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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Letter C, Cont’d. We are going thru the Arizona music alphabet, AZ A to Z, from a collection built by musicians & donors over the years. We are dee...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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Our go-to for jazz guitar in Arizona is Desert Doug who for his ninth installment presents more of the of the prime, if under-rated: Joe Diorio, Fr...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 57:59
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Allan Chase is a jazz alto saxophonist who grew up in 1970s Phoenix, and moved to the east coast not long after. He continues to live, perform and ...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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Guitar Jazz No. 8 hosted by Desert Doug, our go-to in Arizona when it comes to jazz guitar. This week Doug spins wax by Chuck Wayne, Dennis Budimir...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2020
  • Length: 57:59
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Arizona musicians filed under the letter C: Lea Capelli came our way very young in 2014, moving to LA to continue music, Phil Carlin is from Tucson...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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Armand Boatman 2 of 2: To recap volume 1, the guy had it from note one in the ’50, the build & climax feature of his trio playing style was fully o...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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Armand Boatman ended up being the desert southwest’s jazz piano gift from the pacific northwest. An educator and active musician from Richland Wash...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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Variety in this episode of our Arizona music collection under the partial listings of letters B and C: Vintage pop, rockabilly, bluesy country, blu...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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From the letter B: Sheri Baker and Brea Burns, each of whom first appeared on this program in 2016. Two completely different women in Arizona music...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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Letters A and B: Adair to Burke. This episode contains the variety that Arizona music can provide: Pop, new age, eclectic, blues, Latin-tinged, wes...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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We are dealing with Arizona musicians filed under A and B, Rex Allen Sr. and Jr. for starters. Which brings us to one of the most important horn pl...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 57:59
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Arizona Artists Al thru Bo. Now that our collection of Arizona artists’ recordings are organized alphabetically, our job next is to play them…in or...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 57:58
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Local musicians letters A and a wee bit of B: Now that our library of Arizona Musician’s albums, CDs, tapes and digital files are organized, we are...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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Inventory & organizing of AZ CDs hosted by Hacksaw Tom. Over the years the Musician's Union has been filing CD recordings of its members and friend...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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Gaynel Hodge passed in May 2020. He was born in LA with many years residence in Phoenix. He was a singer, songwriter, pianist and arranger for abou...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 57:59
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Johnny D and Bacpac's Arizona Sound series 6 of 6. Johnny touches on his activities from 1980 to today, mentioning radio stations K-15, KUKQ, KEYX,...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 58:00