We will begin to air House of Blues Radio Hour on Saturday, July 17, at 10pm followed by Parlocha at 11pm. Check out…

By Peter Keepnews Joya Sherrill, who sang with Duke Ellington as a teenager, toured the Soviet Union with Benny Goodman and was one…

NPR’s JazzSet© with Dee Dee Bridgewater is the jazz lover’s ears and eyes on the world of live music. It presents today’s best…

A one-hour documentary will air in honor of Louis Armstrong Day, July 4 from 12-1pm. Veteran radio producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this entertaining,…

Inspiring youth Kinston native Ira Wiggins, who now-heads the Jazz Studies program at North Carolina Central University, remembers playing in his brother’s R&B…

Music Interviews 100 Years Of Jazz Clarinetist Artie Shaw In the 1930s and ’40s, Artie Shaw’s band ranked with the Benny Goodman, Jimmy…

Hank Jones, whose self-effacing nature belied his stature as one of the most respected jazz pianists of the postwar era, died on Sunday…

Felipa “Graciela” Pérez Gutiérrez, the legendary “First Lady of Afro-Cuban Jazz”, has passed at the age of 94 at New York Cornell-Presbyterian Hospital…

50 Great Voices Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady Of Song In the 1930s and ’40s, band singers were mostly blond, sophisticated and attractive. Ella…

The 20th Annual NCCU Jazz Festival, April 15-17, marks a milestone for the Jazz Studies Program at North Carolina Central University. The festival…