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WRTI's Jazz Hot 11 is a weekly countdown of your favorite new jazz releases in rotation. This week's Hot 11: 1. The U.S. Army Blues - Stardust - LIVE AT…

Network For New Music, the award-winning new music ensemble and organization based in Philadelphia, looks at the music of the eclectic composer and…

Philadelphia-area native Aaron Jay Kernis is among the most successful and prolific living American composers. The 54-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner has…

On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, 5 to 6 pm, we celebrate the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare, who lived from…

In 1929, an unusual work by a versatile 20th-century French composer premiered at the home of his wealthy patrons. As WRTI’s Susan Lewis reports, this…

One night recently, as I was home struggling to convince my toddler that the floor is not where leftover food lives, John Coltrane and Duke Ellington’s…

Over the past decade or so, it has become increasingly difficult for overseas musicians without well-established reputations in the U.S. to get permission…

Throughout this month, from early evening to the wee small hours of the morning, our jazz staff will be telling you about special moments that created, or…

Music is my life! And I'm going to tell you how I got into music. Here's the story: I was in elementary school, and it was my brother's last year of…

The Big Band side of the influential baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan will be featured on Big Band Jazz this Sunday, April 13 at 7 pm. An arranger with…