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On this episode of The Art of the Story, Bob James talks to WBGO's Doug Doyle about Sarah Vaughan and Hip-Hop sampling

WBGO’s Dave Popkin recently spoke with 17-year-old guitarist and bandleader Marel Hidalgo about beginning to play guitar at the age of four, Hidalgo's Jamaican roots, upcoming performances, and learning to arrange for an orchestra.

Saxophonist and bandleader Lakecia Benjamin has become one of the most dynamic voices in jazz. She tells Leo Sidran about one of her first professional experiences, and how the mentors, heroes, setbacks and aspirations that shaped her journey continue to inform her new album, We Dream.

As New York Voices prepares to retire after nearly forty years together, Darmon Meader looks back with Janis Siegel on the unlikely origins of one of jazz's defining vocal groups - and the role WBGO played from the very beginning.

Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a fellow hunter during a weekend quail-hunting trip at a Texas ranch. Millionaire attorney Harry Whittington, 78, was peppered with shotgun pellets in the face and chest in the accident Saturday afternoon, but is reported to be in stable condition in a Corpus Christi hospital.

WBGO's Doug Doyle reports on the death of celebrated guitarist Russell Malone, who died Friday, August 23 at the age of 60

On the April 4 WBGO Journal, WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with bassist, singer and composer Antonio McLendon about his career, family's musical legacy and the huge success of his daughter Samara Joy

This weekend's Art of Cool Festival in Durham, N.C., aims to expand the audience for improvised music. So it's booked performers from modern R&B, hip-hop and beyond with deep jazz influences.

Live jazz performance at the New Rochelle Library in the Ossie Davis Theater featuring drummer/leader Wayne Henderson

Tadataka Unno on piano, Marco Panascia on bass, James Zollar on trumpet, Eric Miller on trombone and Abel Mireles on sax.

Best known as a leading figure in jazz, pianist and composer Helen Sung also has an extensive background in classical music and violin performance, bringing these musical worlds together in Quartet+. In this program, her outstanding jazz quartet is joined by the infinitely versatile, Grammy-winning Harlem Quartet to apply the uniquely powerful double-quartet treatment to works by iconic women in jazz, as well as new original pieces by Sung.