Josh Jackson

WRTI's Josh Jackson is your host at City Winery Philadelphia on Wednesday, September 21st at 8 PM when he'll have the pleasure of introducing the 2021 Grammy-nominated trumpeter and composer Ambrose Akinmusire.

WRTI, in collaboration with JazzDanmark—the national Danish organization for jazz—is proud to announce the launch of Dangerous Sounds, an eight-episode podcast series on WRTI.org.

Back in 2014, Chick Corea visited The Checkout to promote Portraits , an solo album celebrating artists he admired. Instead, the pianist gave us a clear...

Graves spent a lifetime exploring the fundamental rhythms of life – human or otherwise – and spreading those lessons, over nearly four decades, to his students.

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) has announced that WRTI has been chosen to participate in the Jazz Media Lab, a newly launched public media…

How is the jazz community in Philadelphia responding to the global pandemic? Jazz Night in America found a few different answers to that question. In the…

Philadelphia lost seven great musicians in the first four months of 2020. These artists, like the music, have a special relationship with impermanence. Let us remember them.

Since 2017, Slingshot—a collaboration between NPR Music and the digital music service VuHaus—has provided a platform where 'taste-making' music stations…

Describing Louis Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi as merely enthusiastic about Satchmo would be a gross understatement. It’s easier to say he’s…

On Tuesday, June 2nd at 6 PM, WRTI presented a special live program addressing Black Music as a form of social engagement. Josh Jackson, WRTI’s associate…