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We asked our jazz hosts to curate their five favorite tracks of 2023. We're calling this WRTI's Hot Fives, and we can all but guarantee there's something new here for you to discover.

An impromptu jam of "Compared to What" gave McCann a career-defining moment at the 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival.

With a long career playing among jazz and R&B greats, he remains one of the most in-demand drummers in New Orleans.

This year, Jazz Night celebrates the lives of the artists we lost with a djembe tribute by Weedie Braimah.

In his new biopic Maestro, Cooper was determined not to imitate the legendary Leonard Bernstein. Instead, the actor worked with conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin to find his own rhythm.

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert presents Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 (“Titan”) with guest conductor Rafael Payare, as well as a piano concerto composed by Jimmy López Bellido for Javier Perianes.

If one ever needed proof of Philadelphia as a thriving center of classical music, they need only to consider this week's lineup in Fanfare.

Representatives from three generations of the musical McLendon family — Elder Goldwire, Antonio and Samara Joy — commune together in conversation at Mother Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia.

On the first Sunday of every month, WRTI broadcasts a special edition of Sunday Classical, focused on new releases. The program is hosted by Mark Pinto, who highlights some of the music here.

Hear hand-picked Liszt performances from the Boston studios of WGBH.