Under the Surface represents a creative breakthrough for pianist and composer Sumi Tonooka. She made the suite for the Alchemy Sound Project, inspired by the underground network that nourishes trees, and serves as a sustaining model.

On a new album with the National Philharmonic, conductor Michael Repper and violinist Curtis Stewart breathe new life into music by the Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who was a sensation in his time. His 150th birth anniversary provides a welcome opportunity, as Repper tells WRTI.

Trumpeter Josh Lawrence has become a stalwart on the scene, through an affiliation with Orrin Evans and an appointment at Ensemble Arts Philly. On his crisp new album, he traces a line that connects Frédéric Chopin and Thelonious Monk.

David F. Gibson, whose precise and hard-driving beat powered legacy editions of the Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Cab Calloway orchestras, and other bands big and small, died on July 30. He was 72.

A new documentary about Sun Ra, the otherworldly composer-bandleader, will screen at the BlackStar Film Festival on Aug. 2. As director Christine Turner tells WRTI, it's a portrait that relies on a balancing act.

Impulse! Records has announced the fall release of two landmarks by saxophonist John Coltrane, in special vinyl editions: 'A Love Supreme: Mono Edition' and 'The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings.' Here's what that means.

Chick Corea composed "The Visitors" on a commission for the classical piano phenom Kirill Gerstein and a mutual friend, the jazz vibraphone legend Gary Burton. Its release on ECM honors some fond personal history, as Gerstein and Burton recently explained in an interview with WRTI.

Watch an exclusive in-studio video for "Queen King," the first single from Trio of Bloom, featuring guitarist Nels Cline, keyboardist Craig Taborn, and drummer Marcus Gilmore. Their debut album arrives on Sept. 26.

Joni’s Jazz, a celebration of Joni Mitchell's deep affinity with jazz, will be released as a boxed set and on digital services on Sep. 5. A previously unreleased demo version of "Be Cool" from 1980 has been released as a single today.

This Juneteenth, WRTI is proud to present a video premiere of "Driva'man," from the new Terri Lyne Carrington and Christie Dashiell album 'We Insist! 2025.'