Gary Bartz

Terence Blanchard performs at the International Jazz Day Concert, New Orleans Tricentennial at the Orpheum Theater in 2018.

NEA announces 2024 Jazz Masters including Terence Blanchard and Gary Bartz

Neda Ulaby

The National Endowment for the Arts has selected Terence Blanchard, Willard Jenkins, Amina Claudine Myers and Gary Bartz for the prestigious honor.

Arts Desk

Jazz Album of the Week: Watson, Herring, and Bartz Celebrate Parker Centennial with Bird at 100

Matt Silver

August 31, 2020. Miles Davis once said, “You can tell the history of jazz in four words: Louis Armstrong. Charlie Parker.” August 29th, 2020 marked the…

Arts Desk

Jazz Album of the Week: Lakecia Benjamin Explores the Musical Union of John and Alice on Pursuance

Matt Silver

July 6, 2020. Trained in jazz and forged in funk, alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin grew up hooked on Coltrane—Alice Coltrane. A friend introduced her to…

WRTI Spotlight

Bob Perkins Remembers One Heck of a Night With McCoy Tyner

Bob Perkins

When a dynamic figure in any walk of life departs, writers and just plain folks, usually try to recall certain events about the departed in which they may…