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July's Fanfare brings you highlights like Marcus Roberts revisiting Rhapsody in Blue, the Philadelphia Young Pianists' Academy (PYPA) Piano Festival, Black Pearl, and more.

Listen to our jazz programming on WRTI 90.1 FM all Father's Day weekend to hear dad grooves, filial tributes, and multi-generational jams.

Juneteenth honors Freedom Day, a 19th century landmark for Black Americans across the country. WRTI has prepared special programming in that spirit, featuring music from John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Lionel Loueke and more.

This week's Fanfare features two separate performances with star pianists, a special concert and symposium on the women of the Baroque era and more.

This weekend, NPR Music and our partners WBGO and WGBH are presenting 16 hours of live video webcasting from the 2012 Newport Jazz Festival. For your convenience, here's a breakdown of what you'll see online and hear on WBGO.

The drummer was a first call for many of the finest singers of the 1960s and '70s, including Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne and Peggy Lee.

While many musicians love the Crescent City, few choose to stay after they become successful. The New Orleans-raised Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews comes from a long line of brass-band greats, but is quickly coming into his own with a jazz-funk group — and plans to stay.

For the 200 anniversary of Richard Wagner's birth, William Berger, author of Wagner Without Fear, guides us through five of his favorite Wagner moments — musical episodes that keep the composer's extraordinary dramas in our lives today.

Jazz was central to Aretha Franklin's musicianship, however far she rambled. Without it we'd be remembering a different artist now, and celebrating a different body of work.

“People light up when you recognize and value them. To have high regard for the individual and to understand their contribution: that’s been my guidepost.…