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Each year, Michael Bourne asks listeners of The Blues Break to send him their favorite artists. While there's been a fierce competition for first place…

The official new music playlist from the world's greatest jazz radio station, Newark Public Radio WBGO-FM. This list will be updated periodically. Visit WBGO.org for more

The 41st Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, One Begins Again: Organizing & the Historical Imagination, will be online on Saturday, February 20,…

Pianist Adar Broshi died at 19 on April 5, 2019, after two and a half years of fighting a rare childhood cancer. During that heroic battle, Broshi wrote…

The next meeting of the WBGO Community Advisory Board is scheduled for this Thursday evening, April 30. In accordance with social distancing guidelines,…

Originally published May 27, 2015. Bassist Michael League talks with Alex Ariff about his band Snarky Puppy and their new album Sylva, which features the…

Born of Ukrainian Jewish and African-American descent in Brooklyn, NY, Monifa Brown's (formerly Carson, happily married and the proud mother of a wonderful son – who can be heard in some of Brown’s WBGO show promos) affinity for music began at an early age. "I am blessed that my parents were determined to expose me to the arts and jazz in particular. They would take me with them everywhere. The first time an irrepressible mark was made was when they took me to hear Miles Davis. His presence and sound were mesmerizing. Miles was magical and I was instantly hooked."

Thirty years ago — on Aug. 3, 1987 — Jazz at Lincoln Center held its first-ever concert, at Alice Tully Hall. This morning the organization’s in-house…

"NightByrds" airs on WBGO Thursdays and Fridays (8pm-midnight)

Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is an associate editor of and contributor to Mystery and Suspense Writers (Scribner) and the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. In 2019, Corrigan was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle.