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A founder of the Newport Folk Festival, the Newport Jazz Festival and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — and perhaps the most important jazz impresario of all time — died Monday.

The Pulitzer Prize winner, whose music enveloped everything from the horrors of the Vietnam War to the calls of humpback whales, died Sunday.

Join us on Sunday, Oct. 23 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance recorded live in February, 2022.

The Maria Schneider Orchestra, the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, and Melissa Aldana are among the offerings in this edition of Moment’s Notice, WRTI’s weekly digest of jazz listings in the Philadelphia area.

By the wily standards of Sexmob, 'The Hard Way' combines what you might call a classical approach with a radical new working method. Nate Chinen has our Album of the Week review.

Vikings were ruthless warriors, but also preserved art. This has inspired a new album of Lullabies for Piano and Cello from composer Gabríel Ólafs.

Virtuoso reed man Ted Nash hails from a respected West Coast jazz family, but for the last 10 years, he's been heavily involved with Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. Nash is also an art lover, and he brings new tunes inspired by modern artists to this Piano Jazz session.

Baltimore Symphony Conductor Marin Alsop's latest musical adventure muses on a famous meeting between the troubled composer Gustav Mahler and the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.

Pairing a four-voice choir with a host of exploratory Chicago musicians, Angel Bat Dawid's 'Requiem for Jazz' straddles African-American spirituals and so-called spiritual jazz.

Tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III makes his Blue Note debut with an excellent cohort, and poise to spare. For WRTI's Album of the Week, here is our review.