NPR Live Sessions

WRTI's new Video of the Week finds the progressive jazz-rock band Soften the Glare performing "Above Ground," from a studio in North Carolina.

WRTI is proud to present an in-studio performance by Connected — originally featured on our pandemic series @HOME — as an NPR Live Sessions Video of the Week.

Watch as pianist, composer and educator Tim Brey performs new music in our studio, with partners like trumpeter John Swana.

Musical polymath Greg Spero, who premieres new content each month on WRTI's Live Sessions page, can see the future of the music industry from his Tiny Records in Los Angeles.

WRTI is proud to take part in this year’s Jazz Summit, presented by Jazz Philadelphia and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, in partnership with PECO, on…

Members of the 2019 Boysie Lowery Living Jazz Residency program visited the WRTI Performance Studio last year to play a number of songs. In this video,…

The multitalented Kendrah E. Butler-Waters, a pianist, composer, and vocalist, weaves cultural honesty and spiritual sensibilities into her compositions…

Pianist Victor Gould took a shine to the piano at age four and has been sparkling on the keyboards ever since. Born in Los Angeles, Victor's piano…

When London-born bass player Anthony Tidd teams up with Philly-born, spoken-word artist Ursula Rucker, a special type of combustion occurs. Both create…

When tenor saxophonist Teodross Avery first listened to John Coltrane’s iconic album Giant Steps a couple decades ago, it changed the course of his…