Brandee Younger

"We're celebrating artists who are going to continue to make an imprint on the field," Ashley Ferro-Murray, program director for the arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, tells WRTI. Two such artists are harpist Brandee Younger and drummer Kassa Overall, who are among the 2025 Doris Duke Artists.

This week's Moment's Notice brings a series of rotating instruments to the forefront - from Brandee Younger on harp to Sasha Berliner on vibraphone to Daniel Villareal on drums, there is something for everyone this week.

In Moment's Notice this week: Brandee Younger in Ardmore, Chad Taylor at Solar Myth, and Jamaaladeen Tacuma with Odean Pope on Lancaster Ave.

We asked our jazz hosts to give us their five favorite tracks of 2023, for WRTI's Hot Fives. Here are picks for Courtney Blue, host of Late Evening Jazz.

We asked our jazz hosts to give us their five favorite tracks of 2023, for WRTI's Hot Fives. Here are picks for Maurice Browne, host of The Standard.

In her stunning Tiny Desk, the artist demonstrates her ability to showcase all sides of the harp, from an instrument in classical music to contemporary pop.

On 'Ennanga,' harpist Ashley Jackson explores music by William Grant Still, Alice Coltrane, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Brandee Younger. It's "a gemlike offering," says Nate Chinen in our Album of the Week review.

Kamasi Washington, Brandee Younger, Robert Glasper, Jason Moran — some of the biggest names in jazz descend on Philly in the coming week. Here's our rundown, in Moment's Notice.

Ndegeocello doesn't conform to anybody else's idea of the celestial plane. When she sings of supernovas, she sounds like a witness.

Rooted in the lineage of Black music, Younger interprets a tune by Dorothy Ashby, a pioneer of genre-bending harp.