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Jazz Night shines a light on the artistry and activism of pianist and singer Hazel Scott, and the efforts to recover her legacy.

The death of 22-year-old pianist Austin Peralta prematurely ended a rapidly expanding career. A child prodigy, at the end of his teenage years he cut Endless Planets, an album which showed a jazz-trained musician just beginning to utilize the enormity of the tones and rhythms around him.

A rising star in the world of improvised music with her group FLY or DIE, branch died on Monday at her home in Brooklyn, N.Y.

For the past month, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich laid out multiple strips of paper on his desk, with names like Uncle Owen Aunt Beru, Extra Life and Erykah Badu printed on them.

What is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting? (CPB) What is National Public Radio? (NPR) How are they related to WRTI? Are you under the impression…

It wasn't exactly a tie. But then again, it was a rather bountiful year for jazz albums. The pollmaster breaks down the result, and by extension, the year in jazz.

This Saturday, April 20, is Record Store Day — a windfall for archival jazz releases. Our jazz team has heard it all, and brought you these insights.

WRTI broadcasts the Robert K. Johnson Foundation-Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinee weekly at 1 p.m. Here is the 2024-25 schedule, which features operatic staples alongside acclaimed Met premieres.

On an assured debut, Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio pivots from jazz's bygone eras into the hyperlinked modern age and back again.

On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, March 5th, 5 to 6 pm... It's a composer we’ve barely touched on in Discoveries from the Fleisher…