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Alvin Ailey American Dance theater performer and Newark native Christopher Taylor talks about his introduction to the dance company

Every Saturday, we’re inviting NYC’s top musicians & magicians to perform in our art deco cocktail lounge, from local legends to Grammy award-winners. This week’s musical act is the Sam Dillon Trio, who is a saxophonist, woodwind player, composer and teacher based in New York. In 2013 Sam was selected as a semifinalist in the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition. As a semifinalist, Sam performed at The Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. for Wayne Shorter, Jimmy Heath, Branford Marsalis, Bobby Watson and Jane Ira Bloom. Most notably, Sam has performed at Carnegie Hall, Jazz @ Lincolin Center, Symphony Space Birdland, The Iridium, Yoshi’s Jazz Club, Smalls Jazz Club, The 55 Bar, The Zinc Bar, The Kitano Hotel, Cornelia Street Cafe and live on WBGO 88.3 FM. In 2009 Sam received his Masters in Jazz Performance from SUNY Purchase College.

Every Saturday, we’re inviting NYC’s top musicians & magicians to perform in our art deco cocktail lounge, from local legends to Grammy award-winners. This week’s musical act is the Sam Dillon Trio, who is a saxophonist, woodwind player, composer and teacher based in New York. In 2013 Sam was selected as a semifinalist in the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition. As a semifinalist, Sam performed at The Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. for Wayne Shorter, Jimmy Heath, Branford Marsalis, Bobby Watson and Jane Ira Bloom. Most notably, Sam has performed at Carnegie Hall, Jazz @ Lincolin Center, Symphony Space Birdland, The Iridium, Yoshi’s Jazz Club, Smalls Jazz Club, The 55 Bar, The Zinc Bar, The Kitano Hotel, Cornelia Street Cafe and live on WBGO 88.3 FM. In 2009 Sam received his Masters in Jazz Performance from SUNY Purchase College.

WBGO's Doug Doyle reports on the loss of jazz writer, editor, archivist, author and producer Dan Morgenstern

WBGO's Tennyson Donyea reports New Jersey remains “ground zero” for climate change in the Mid-Atlantic and officials are deeply concerned about how that impacts urban areas.

8-time Grammy Award-winning bassist and composer Christian McBride chats with WBGO's Doug Doyle about the Montclair Jazz Festival

WBGO's Gary Walker chats with Susan Brecker about the benefit concert honoring her late husband

WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with singer April May Webb and trumpeter Randall Haywood

WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Ute Lemper about her latest album Pirate Jenny and her upcoming gigs at 54 Below

Late last month, a new sculpture was unveiled in Times Square. Entitled ”Rumors of War,” the latest work by the African-American artist Kehinde Wiley. is…