WRTI's Jazz Place
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(Halloween is Monday, October 31st, as if you didn’t know!)Monday is spooky on old 'RTI.It is Halloween, so you won’t wonder whyYou’ll hear witches and… -
WRTI’s Bob Perkins joined the 2016 Philadelphia Music Alliance Walk of Fame class on October 19th. Five of the most outstanding jazz personalities had…
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In the run-up to the November elections, political ads proliferate. WRTI’s Susan Lewis looks at how music contributes to the message. Radio script:Susan…
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The latest album from the Brooklyn-based Balkan party band is a rearrangement of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's Far East Suite.
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Brushes with fame may be commonplace for those who work in the public eye, but, as WRTI’s Maureen Malloy reports, Bob Perkins has never been too far from…
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This Sunday at 7 pm on WRTI, celebrate the 300th broadcast of Big Band Jazz with Bob Craig. Bob launched Big Band Jazz on October 3rd, 2010, and has been…
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Jones' new album, Day Breaks, includes a song inspired by "Compared to What," a jazz protest song from the late '60s, the lyrics of which she says are "still relevant so many years later."
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The pianist's new album places Latin standards at the center of instrumental jazz and offers creative experimentation with harmony and meter.
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Born in North Carolina in 1926, saxophone player and composer John Coltrane spent over a decade in Philadelphia and then moved to New York. WRTI's Susan…
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The Philadelphia-based tenor sax player and composer Odean Pope is known worldwide in jazz circles for his impeccable artistry and for his Saxophone…
