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Lenora Zenzalai Helm Faculty Recital

Tuesday, February 21, 7 pm Lenora Zenzalai Helm Faculty Recital Not Voice As Usual B. N. Duke Auditorium Not Voice As Usual, is…

Black History Month Specials on WNCU

February 5, at 3 p.m. – Wailin’ Soul: Bob Marley and the African-American Connection A 60-minute music rich special on Bob Marley and…

Remembering Clare Fischer On Piano Jazz

Composer, arranger and pianist Clare Fischer died Thursday, Jan. 26, his website has announced. He was 83. The L.A. Times reports that he…

The Extraordinary Career Of A Man Who Managed Jazz Musicians

This weekend, we learned that the jazz businessman John Levy died on Friday. His wife, Devra Hall Levy, announced the news on Saturday…

Jimmy Owens Navigates Monk’s ‘Brilliant Corners’

In 1974, trumpeter Jimmy Owens helped prepare and played on a Carnegie Hall concert of Thelonious Monk’s music. On the night in question,…

8th Annual Valentine’s Day Jazz Concert

The 8th Annual Valentine’s Day Jazz Concert will take place on Sunday, February 12, at 4 p.m., in Duke University’s Reynolds Industries Theater. …

Legendary R&B Singer Etta James Dies At 73

The “Matriarch of the Blues” has died. Music legend Etta James died Friday morning at Riverside Community Hospital in California of complications from…

NCCU Jazz Combos and Brass Ensemble Included in Nationally Syndicated Radio Show

Congratulations to the NCCU Jazz Combos and Brass Ensemble. Music from their latest CD Slightly Blued made the playlist for the nationally syndicated and highly…

Two New Shows added to HD2, WNCU starting January 17

Every Tuesday at 8pm Planetary Radio, the weekly half-hour series about space exploration, has been available since Tuesday, July 20, 2004, the thirty-fifth…

Toast of the Nation

WNCU will ring in the new year with our yearly broadcast of Toast of the Nation. It begins at 8pm on Dec. 31…

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