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Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator and a leading advocate of American culture. He is the world’s first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum from its New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz. By creating and performing an expansive range of brilliant new music for quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras, tap dance to ballet, Wynton has expanded the vocabulary for jazz and created a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers.

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New York City Jazz Performance Preview: Fall 2026

by Paul Reynolds
September 16, 2026

New York season includes the first fall programs from two recently opened midtown clubs--The Pocket and Jazzcultural and higher-profile shows for fine emerging performers such as singer Ekep Nkwelle and pianist/arranger Joe Block. The preeminent departure is that of Wynton Marsalis who, after 30 years in the job, will lead his last season as ...

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Cassandra Wilson Tribute (RIP); New Music from Joey DeFrancesco, Doug Webb, and Others

by David W. Daniels
September 15, 2026

Additional music in the show includes new music from Sullivan Fortner, Stella Cole, and More. Recognizing this week's jazz musician birthdays with music from Sonny Rollins, Brian Lynch, Hiram Bullock, and others.Playlist Cassandra Wilson} Autumn Nocturne" from <em> Blue Skies </em> (JMT) 00:00 </li> <li> {{m: Steve Coleman “Soul Melange" from Sine Die (Pangaea) ...

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Cassandra Wilson: Iconic Memories - Part 1

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 14, 2026

A retrospective built around the adventurous spirit that ran through Cassandra Wilson's music, from her formative years in the M-Base orbit to her later work at the crossroads of jazz, blues, soul, R&B and beyond.Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Cassandra Wilson “Run the VooDoo Down" Traveling ...

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Sullivan Fortner: Leave That In There

Read "Leave That In There" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
August 28, 2026

Sullivan Fortner has never been an artist short on ideas. But Leave That In There feels different. It is the sound of a musician who has distilled everything he has absorbed from his deep well of Gulf South upbringing, from the piano giants and from spirituals and street parades, into his own language. It is easily ...

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New York's Hottest New Club Has Arrived

by Mark Robbins
August 14, 2026

Martin Porter's life has revolved around jazz from an early age. Growing up playing jazz piano and listening to the greats, he eventually found himself living out a dream--working at the Jazz Standard, one of the city's premier jazz clubs. The closing of the Standard left a void in New York's jazz community--one that Martin Porter was ...

Article: Live Review

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Play Ellington's Black, Brown, and Beige

by Paul Reynolds
August 2, 2026

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center Ellington's Greatest Masterpiece: Black, Brown, and Beige New York, NY July 23, 2026 Usually dark for the summer, Jazz at Lincoln Center, unusually, presented a concert event this month. Billed as the first performances of the 2026-2027 season for ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Voo Voo Runs the Voodoo Down

by Maciej Stasiowski
August 1, 2026

Voo Voo is the faux-phonetic transcription of how Wojciech Waglewski's initials should be pronounced in English--instead of the default “double U" times two. By no mere coincidence, it is also the name of a group he has been running since 1985. Having secured his band this way for sailing on international waters already at the outset, ...

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Phil Schaap: A Life in Jazz

by Daniel Gould
July 28, 2026

Phil Schaap, a jazz historian, radio host, record producer, archivist, six-time Grammy Award winner, and 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, called himself “a Johnny Appleseed through the transmitter." Of course, the subject of his proselytizing was jazz, and few did it as long, or through so many different media--broadcasting, teaching, audio engineering, and ...

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Joey Alexander, Terri Lyne Carrington, Leigh Pilzer, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Claudia Acuna, Anna Pauline Andersson & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 27, 2026

This broadcast includes new music from Anna Pauline Andersson, Joey Alexander, Terri Lyne Carrington, Leigh Pilzer, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Claudia Acuna, plus birthday shoutouts to Mary Osborne, Dorothy Fields, Phoebe Snow, Betty Davis, Julia Hulsmann, Nicole Glover, Akua Dixon, Lauren Sevian, Carmen Bradford, Lauren Lee and Honorable Man Ruben Blades, among others. Happy listening and please support ...