Year in Review

What did the best jazz sound like in 2025? There’s no way to answer that question without first issuing a bundle of qualifiers. But our jazz team took a crack at it.

Our favorite 2025 classical albums and experiences rooted us in the present, but also offered glimpses of a vast beyond.

The editorial director of WRTI in Philadelphia shares his favorite albums of the year, including a "thinking person's thrill ride" of a jazz guitar album.

We're looking back at the stories, themes and other highlights from a jam-packed year — including Blues Blood, an album by our guest, alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins.

Your jazz holiday soundtrack is on WRTI. Check out what we have planned!

If diversity is the hallmark of a healthy ecosystem, then it’s clear that jazz has little to worry about as we approach the close of 2024. Here are some of our favorites.

Here are the recordings and concerts that thrilled our classical hosts in 2024. Join host Mark Pinto on Sunday Classical, Jan. 5 from 3-6 p.m., to hear music from each of our favorite albums.

This year, Jazz Night celebrates the lives of the artists we lost with a djembe tribute by Weedie Braimah.

For our final episode of 2023, we’re talking about the albums we can’t let go. One of them was Rivers in Our Veins, by drummer and composer Allison Miller, who joins us in conversation.

We asked our jazz hosts to curate their five favorite tracks of 2023. We're calling this WRTI's Hot Fives, and we can all but guarantee there's something new here for you to discover.