Search results for

WBGO has won two 2024 PMJA Awards

Fiona Ritchie strolls along the main street of a small village in rural Scotland and steps through the plain doorway of an 18th century stone building. Passers-by would find it difficult to imagine what this simple gesture initiates: a weekly connection with devoted public radio listeners throughout the United States. In over two decades of broadcasts, Ritchie's radio program The Thistle & Shamrock has become one of NPR's most widely heard and best-loved music programs. She has entered the lives of millions of Americans by way of an inconspicuous studio door, thousands of miles away in Scotland.

Harlan Jacobson became WBGO's film critic in 2010, covering the international film scene for the "WBGO Journal," with reports from film festivals around the world about films arriving on the scene in the greater New York-New Jersey metroplex.

The Gala Steering Committee invites you to join with us for:WBGO Champions of Jazz Gala Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 6:00PMJazz at Lincoln Center’s Appel Room,…

Streamed concert by BOBBY SANABRIA & QUARTETO ACHÉ for the Yamaha Concert Series presented in partnership with WBGO

It turns out the 45-degree tilt seen in the "Smooth Criminal" video is a mix of illusion, science and some serious athleticism.

WBGO celebrates Eastman New Jazz Ensemble at the University of Rochester

In celebration of the Allman Brothers Band’s Eat a Peach, the group Trouble No More will perform the album in its entirety. The iconic record was released 50 years ago in 1972 and contains some of the ABB’s most beloved songs, including “Melissa,” “Blue Sky,” “Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More,” “One Way Out” and “Mountain Jam.” Trouble No More is Brandon “Taz” Niederaurer (Guitar, Vocals), Daniel Donato (Guitar, Vocals), Dylan Niederauer (Bass Guitar), Jack Ryan (Drums), Lamar Williams Jr. (Vocals), Nikki Glaspie (Drums), Peter Levin (Keys) and Roosevelt Collier (Pedal Steel Guitar).

Anthony Tidd -bass
Kokayi -emcee
Laurin Talese -vocals
Erika Hicks -vocals
Paul Cornish -piano
Miles Okazaki -guitar
Miguel Zenon -saxophone
Sean Rickman -drums

Anthony Tidd’s groundbreaking octet Quite Sane returns to premier new music commissioned by Chamber Music America for their forthcoming album project, the sequel to The Child of Troubled Times.

Sets at 7.30pm + 9.30pm ET

International Contemporary Ensemble gives the world premiere performance of two new works by Lesley Mok and Chris Ryan Williams at Joe’s Pub alongside a solo set by Lesley Mok, and Fay Victor’s Flow to the Next on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 7:00pm. Commissioned by ICEensemble as part of their 2021-2022 “Call for __” Commissions Program, the new works include Mok’s Stilled leaf-chatter and Williams’s Odu: vibration 1.