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An accomplished harpist and educator, Jill Pasternak led a distinguished career in radio, including 18 years at WRTI.

We're so sad to share the news that Jill Pasternak died on July 26 of natural causes at age 91. Here are a few of our memories of Jill. What are yours?

It’s midsummer, and that means that we here at WRTI are taking stock of some of our favorite releases to come out thus far in 2025.

In Moment's Notice this week: free shows by Keyon Harrold and Brian Betz, an ambient set from Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer and more.

London's Sunday Times once called Laine "quite simply the best singer in the world."

Bobby Bradford and Andrew Cyrille join Karl Evangelista at Solar Myth, Arturo O'Farrill brings the Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble to Atlantic City, and V. Shayne Frederick headlines the Lancaster Avenue Jazz & Arts Festival — all in this week's edition of Moment's Notice, our weekly guide to live jazz in the Philly area.

This week's Moment's Notice features performances from Nicole Henry, Kim Waters with Gerald Veasley, Pete Malinverni and more.

Another departure from the Kennedy Center: Composer, pianist, educator and bandleader Jason Moran announced on social media that he is no longer the artistic director for jazz. Moran joined the Kennedy Center in 2011.

Chick Corea composed "The Visitors" on a commission for the classical piano phenom Kirill Gerstein and a mutual friend, the jazz vibraphone legend Gary Burton. Its release on ECM honors some fond personal history, as Gerstein and Burton recently explained in an interview with WRTI.

The small plastic instrument has long been the go-to instrument in elementary schools. But it is capable of so much more than "Hot Cross Buns."