Josh Jackson
Associate General Manager, Jazz and Classical HostJosh Jackson is the associate general manager for programming and content at WRTI.
He began his radio career at WWOZ in New Orleans, worked as a production assistant at American Routes, and moved to New York City to become the associate producer of Jazz From Lincoln Center with Ed Bradley.
Josh was formerly the vice president of content at WBGO and the program director of Virginia's statewide network of NPR news and music stations.
He was the founding producer of the multi-platform concert series Live at the Village Vanguard and The Checkout: Live, a concert experience for the hourly music magazine he created, The Checkout. His efforts in multimedia production led to the creation of NPR's Jazz Night in America.
At WRTI, he was the producing partner with JazzDanmark for the 2021Dangerous Sounds podcast.
Josh is a two-time recipient of the Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award for Broadcasting. He came to WRTI from the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia and now lives in the less elevated region of Mt. Airy in Philadelphia, where he listens to vinyl records and makes radio shows in his basement.
Hear Josh as host of Friday Mixtape, Fridays from 6 to 10 p.m.
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“Harvest Time” is the latest single from the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble's 'Spirit Gatherer - Tribute to Don Cherry,' due out March 10 on SpiritMuse Records. -
Guitarist Jeff Parker has found a way to make social music in an age of isolation, as he demonstrates on two distinct new albums.
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In advance of 'John & Alice: A Coltrane Festival' at Penn Live Arts, here is a choice selection of pieces that speak to Alice and John Coltrane in dialogue.
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October 12, 2020. The clarinetist and saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera, winner of a dozen Grammy awards, has nothing but superlatives for Wayne Marshall,…
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How is the jazz community in Philadelphia responding to the global pandemic? Jazz Night in America found a few different answers to that question. In the…
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How is the Philadelphia jazz community responding to the global pandemic? Pianist Orrin Evans and other musicians are taking on the challenge.
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Philadelphia lost seven great musicians in the first four months of 2020. These artists, like the music, have a special relationship with impermanence. Let us remember them.
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Describing Louis Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi as merely enthusiastic about Satchmo would be a gross understatement. It’s easier to say he’s…
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Charles Tolliver is a model for autonomy and self-sufficiency in music. His work as a founder of Strata-East Records set a standard for black creative…
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The annual jazz festival features so many bands on so many stages that we asked a few writers (and a photographer) to highlight some of this year's best moments.
