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From the mid-'50s to 1990, the drummer's band served as a finishing school for elite jazz musicians. Here are five of the distinguished alumni of Blakey's university of the streets, including Horace Silver, Terence Blanchard and Wayne Shorter.

How one writer's identity was forged by a summer music festival in the Berkshires.

David Patrick Stearns reports on Opera New Jersey’s new summer season at the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park, NJ. On July 29th: Verdi's Il Trovatore. On…

Hear a new performance of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait with Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell.

Join WRTI's J. Michael Harrison as he welcomes the leader of Mozaic Flow, trombonist Jermaine Bryson. Jermaine will be visiting The Bridge to debut the…

Gary Walker, music director of WBGO in Newark, highlights the pianist's take on a Miles Davis classic.

Fridays are funnier with a cartoon at noon from Deceptive Cadence.

As the Free Library of Philadelphia continues its celebration of A Year of Dickens, WRTI's Susan Lewis considers the lasting appeal of the 19th-century…

A soprano's passing, practicing 20 hours a day for the Boston Symphony and composers' missing chompers: all the news that's fit to link.

The Israeli musician discovered his instrument through a set of childhood coincidences. He tells the unlikely story and discusses Bach, his new album.