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Listen to music from the trombonist, disc jockey, and bandleader Doc Wheeler Morin. Doc’s music influenced some of the biggest stars of big band music, including Tommy Dorsey.

Enjoy a special Halloween episode of Cultural Manifesto. Hear an interview with Yung Rev, an Indianapolis-based musician and entrepreneur. Plus an hour of truly terrifying music from Hoosier history.

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky playlist of music featuring artists who performed on the Avenue like Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, and more.

Listen to words and music with the tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, one of the most celebrated performers in the history of Indian classical music. Hussain will perform at the Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel on November 1 with the santoor player Rahul Sharma.

Explore the music of the Indianapolis trumpet player Joe Mitchell. He performed with many legendary bandleaders including Ray Charles, Count Basie, Jimmy Coe, and Earl Bostic.

Listen to an interview with the prolific rock and roll drummer, and former Bloomington, Indiana resident Kenny Aronoff.

Listen to an interview with the legendary vocalist Dionne Warwick. She’ll be performing in Central Indiana later this month.

Listen to the music of Quincy Jones and the masters of Indiana Avenue jazz. Quincy Jones was a legendary producer, musician, composer, and arranger. He died earlier this month at the age of 91.

A new album from the Logansport Indiana rapper Id Obelus celebrates the legacy of Zerfas. The project is titled “Safrez”, it includes samples from the 1973 Zerfas LP, along with rhymes inspired by Zerfas’ lyrics. Also, hear a 2015 conversation with the late Moe Whittemore, he recorded and released Zerfas’ 1973 album from his 700 West studio in New Palestine, Indiana.

For the next two weeks, explore the music of Earl “Fox” Walker, a legendary Indianapolis jazz drummer. This show will focus on Walker’s recordings with the Lionel Hampton band from 1946 to 1949.