Kassa Overall's new album, CREAM, is a celebration of 1990s hip-hop and its classic source material. He joined Nate Chinen and Nicole Sweeney to talk about it before a front-to-back performance at Solar Myth.
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Listen to The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on Demand
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Jeff Fusco/The Philadelphia OrchestraJoin us on Sunday, Sept. 14 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you music by American masters Margaret Bonds and William Grant Still, as well as Yuja Wang in Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. -
Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia OrchestraJoin us on Sunday, Sept. 7 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Mahler's Symphony No. 9 in D major and a moving new work by Jake Heggie: Songs for Murdered Sisters, performed by baritone Joshua Hopkins with a libretto by Margaret Atwood. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the program.
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The Late Set Podcast
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Sonny Rollins is turning 95: a great excuse to toast one of our finest living jazz artists. So in this special episode of The Late Set, Josh Jackson and Nate Chinen are joined by a handful of WRTI’s on-air hosts -
"Live at the Village Vanguard" is one of the most familiar phrases in the jazz discography, a marker of place and a point of pride. But why? Together we’ve logged hundreds of hours in the club, so let's talk about it. Tumble down those stairs with us and listen up!
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