Special one-hour edition features in-depth interviews with jazz greats Rufus Reid and Terence Blanchard

By Doug Doyle

Published March 2, 2024 at 9:57 AM EST

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Bassist and educator Rufus Reid is receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from Wharton Arts

On this special one-hour edition of the WBGO Journal...

A surprising story about Newark student journals from the 1800's from what is now Barringer High School that are headed to the Library of Congress..

One of the sketches in the then Newark High School (now Barringer) student journals from the 1800's

WBGO’s Gary Walker chats with legendary bassist Rufus Reid about his upcoming Lifetime achievement award from Wharton Arts…

WBGO's Jon Kalish has the story of a man in Western Massachusetts who destroyed a weather tower erected to gather data for two proposed nuclear power plants in the town of Montague. That act of civil disobedience ignited what became a nationwide movement to stop the construction of nuclear power plants.

Host Doug Doyle chats with seven-time Grammy Award winner and two-time Oscar nominee, trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard. Blanchard is the host and executive producer of the New Orleans based doc Up From The Streets...

And WBGO Film Critic Harlan Jacobson previews the 96th Academy Awards competition