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Band leader, composer, arranger and consummate showman Duke Ellington would have been 105 years old Thursday. NPR's Allison Keyes remembers the man who once said, "I live with music."

Later this year, vibraphonist Gary Burton will resign as vice president of Berklee College of Music, ending a three-decade affiliation with the school. NPR's Cheryl Corley talks with Burton about the move and his desire to do more performing and recording.

Join us on Sunday, Oct. 23 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance recorded live in February, 2022.

Singer, songwriter Jamie Cullum has become a star by putting his mark on jazz piano. The Brit's new album, Catching Tales, is a collection of original compositions, jazz standards, and savvy covers of rock and pop classics.

NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with composer and saxophonist Joshua Redman, artistic director of the San Francisco Jazz Collective. Redman has chosen to highlight the work of "free jazz" pioneer Ornette Coleman for the Collective's inaugural season. He's recruited highly respected musicians for the venture: Bobby Hutcherson, Nicholas Payton, Miguel Zenon, Josh Roseman, Renee Rosnes, Robert Hurst and Brian Blade are all tapped to participate.

This past week, bassist and cellist Percy Heath was honored with a "Beacons in Jazz" award from the New School University in New York. NPR's Liane Hansen speaks with the longtime member of the Modern Jazz Quartet who still performs with the Heath Brothers, and has only now at the age of 80 released his first solo CD: A Love Song is on Daddy Jazz Records.

On Susan Werner's newest CD, her sixth, the singer-songwriter moves distinctively away from folk and toward the jazzy American songbook style recently embraced by artists such as Rod Stewart and Norah Jones. NPR's Susan Stamberg reports. Hear three selections from Werner's I Can't Be New.

Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd created a new CD that weaves together interviews with people in airports around the world with jazz and hip hop music. NPR's Michele Norris talks with Iyer and Ladd.

Watch the legendary jazz bassist and members of his trio perform from The Blue Note's prestigious stage.

It's a labor of love, years in the making — Grammy-winning producer, composer and keyboardist Jason Miles brings together a stellar cast of "smooth" jazz legends on the compilation CD Coast to Coast.