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The Temple University Jazz Band took first place in the prestigious 2026 National Collegiate Jazz Championship, at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. Read our coverage — and hear the three arrangements the band played in competition, recorded at their winter concert.

The new episode of The Late Set Radio Hour, airing Sunday at 8 p.m. ET, features a conversation with Michael Mayo, who is up for two Grammy Awards.

Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves is retiring from the stage after a last performance as Maria in the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera, and looking ahead to directing and mentoring.

As a member of Oregon, solo artist, and collaborator of luminaries like Keith Jarrett and John Abercrombie, Towner left an indelible mark on modern progressive jazz.

Renée Fleming is the latest to say they will not perform at the Kennedy Center.

Freedom and form have always found active equilibrium in the music of Dave Douglas. His new album, Four Freedoms, considers that balancing act — along with an idea first voiced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and worth revisiting now.

Can a week ever be too jam-packed with talent? This is a good week to find out, and Moment's Notice has the intel.

From a benefit organized by a world-class pianist to a starring role for a 2,000-year-old Chinese instrument, this weeks options in Fanfare reflect the diversity of the City of Brotherly Love.

WRTI had the pleasure of hosting a live broadcast for BBC Radio 3 in our studio as part of their "American Roadtrip" tour of cities across the U.S.A.

Rebecca Kilgore championed 1930s and 1940s vocal jazz and collaborated extensively with songwriter Dave Frishberg, who wrote classics like "I'm Hip," and "Peel Me A Grape."