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The Central Park Five is an operatic narrative retelling the true story of the five African-American and Latino teenagers wrongly convicted of raping and assaulting a white woman in 1989.

Nasir Dickerson’s Life Light Empowerment Ensemble celebrated the release of a new album, 'Let It Shine,' at WRTI. We're proud to share the concert as our kickoff to a Black History Month video series, Sankofa Sounds.

Pianist Marilyn Crispell, saxophonist Kirk Whalum, and drummer Devin Gray are among the artists performing in Philadelphia in the coming week. Learn more in Moment's Notice, WRTI's weekly jazz listings.

Christmas jazz season is upon us, and this week in moment's notice, we have a few local options for spreading the cheer.

The 2024 Grammy nominations are in, and the jazz field is chock full of returning heroes.

In this week's guide to live jazz in the Philadelphia area, we turn the spotlight on a trumpeter from Camden and a saxophonist from Sapporo, Japan.

Moment’s Notice this is week is another holiday bonanza, headlined by Samara Joy's A Joyful Holiday. Also: Bobby Zankel celebrates the solstice, and the Postmodern Jukebox rolls through town.

At 100, Marshall Allen has a new live album on the way. WRTI is proud to premiere the first single, featuring James McNew of Yo La Tengo and Charlie Hall of The War on Drugs.

Another week of peaks and valleys — Indianapolis returns its symphony to the stage, a Cuban ensemble is visiting Pennsylvania and Seattle threatens to strike. Meanwhile, Philly Orchestra players offer to replace a child's missing trombone. It's all the classical music news that's fit to link.

As a first-call trumpeter in many jazz, Latin and Broadway ensembles, Frink made a lot of bands sound good. But she was better known as someone who made thousands of other trumpet players sound better. The foremost brass instructor in New York City, Frink was 62.