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May 3, 2021. Depending on what you’re most susceptible to, Sachal Vasandani’s Midnight Shelter will either break your heart or rock you to sleep. If you…

Where can you find the perfect jazz soundtrack to add comfort and joy to your holiday season? You guessed it! Check out our schedule here.

December drops us into a holiday bounty, with Lyric Fest's Fascinating Rhythm, Philadelphia Ballet's production of The Nutcracker, Carols by Candlelight and more.

The jazz artist suffered from a condition that rendered his bones brittle and his stature three feet tall. But in the '80s and '90s, he still lived a full — if brief — life at the top of the international touring circuit, as captured in a new documentary.

After he helped to develop the bluesy, driving hard bop style in the '50s and '60s, his funkier commercial hit recordings shaped black pop music through the advent of hip-hop. A committed music educator, the Detroit native was 80 when he died last week.

The annual jazz competition for young musicians, which featured saxophonists in 2013, was a bit predictable — at least in the semifinal round. But given the particular displays of talent on stage, is that necessarily a bad thing?

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Drummer Stanton Moore — a founding member of the funk band Galactic — has a new release with "Here Come the Girls" on a tribute album to the late songwriting producer Allen Toussaint.

"I've learned that when you talk about art and music you end up talking about life," says Susan Lewis, who has covered a lot of ground in 18 years at WRTI. Before signing off, she offers a parting reflection.

Coming up on Sunday, September 15th, WRTI's Sunday radio broadcast of The Philadelphia Orchestra In Concert features, on the podium, Englishman Simon…