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Join us on Sunday, September 18th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, September 19th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance recorded live in December, 2021.
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Composer Wynton Marsalis shares his inspiration for his expansive and lyrical Blues Symphony. This recording captures the excitement of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s performance in December, 2019.
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Wynton Marsalis talks about his Blues Symphony and more in this interview with Susan Lewis.
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WRTI is proud to share this year’s NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert that took place on Thursday, April 22nd. NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater (2017)…
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December 21, 2020. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s (JALCO) Big Band Holidays II is a thoroughly enjoyable holiday-time jazz album, and those aren’t…
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August 10, 2020. When legendary saxophonist Jimmy Heath passed away on January 19th, Philadelphia lost one of our upper-echelon of jazz—a high priest, if…
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So, your Independence Day weekend may be a little different this year, but one thing is the same: WRTI is here for you. We have classical and jazz…
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The Philadelphia Orchestra In Concert on WRTI 90.1: Wynton Marsalis' Blues Symphony In The SpotlightJoin us on Sunday, July 5th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, July 6th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear Wynton Marsalis’s 2009 composition Blues Symphony…
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Jazz pianist and educator Ellis Marsalis has died at the age of 85, according to tweets from New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and Jazz at Lincoln Center.
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March 2, 2020. Wayne Shorter’s music has long deserved big band treatment, and in 2015 it finally got it—from the world’s most prestigious big band, the…