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April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and WBGO is celebrating by showcasing some of the talent from local programs. This installment features the Manhattan…

Celebrating Madeleine Peyroux on her birthday. A look at her early years, tracing how a runaway teenager found her voice busking on the streets of Paris — and how that formative period shaped one of the most distinctive jazz singer-songwriters of her generation.

The significant winter storm had passed in the South by Saturday morning, but travel issues and power outages were still ongoing.

On this episode of The Third Story, host Leo Sidran chats with Nels Cline

WBGO's Doug Doyle reports opening night of 13th annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival featured the music of Nigel Hall and Madison McFerrin

In an excerpt from his book “Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year,” author Paul Alexander writes about the moving performance by Billie Holiday and Lester Young on “The Sound of Jazz” TV program in 1957.

In the centennial year of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, pianist Emmet Cohen says the greatest tribute to the masters isn’t imitation, it’s self-discovery. As his new album Universal Truth arrives the same week he turns 36, Cohen reflects on artistry, mentorship, and why jazz remains one of the last places where people fully inhabit the moment.

Grant Green is the subject of two newly released recordings of incredible jazz guitar: one from the late 60’s in France, and the other showing Green’s…

WBGO's Sheila Anderson chats with author Karen Chilton about the legacy of jazz pianist and singer Hazel Scott