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On the April 25 WBGO Journal, a chat with author Eileen Bellew about her powerful new memoir "After John Jumped" and we meet the architects of Jersey Devil

WBGO’s Dave Popkin catches up with The Nth Power to cover their new record “Never Alone” plus performing with Snarky Puppy and more.

Dave Popkin talks with Isaiah Collier about his new music from his EP Joy - as well as honoring and continuing the legacy of John Coltrane, on the centennial of his birth.

Stephanie Stein Crease is a jazz historian, author, editor, and former Senior Jazz Coordinator for the Jazz Arts Program, Manhattan School of Music. Her books include Gil Evans: Out of the Cool (ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award), and Duke Ellington: His Life in Jazz, and, most recently, Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America. She was literary editor for the Grammy-awarded Duke Ellington Centennial Edition. She was a 2020 Scholar-in Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL, and 2018 Berger-Benny Carter-Berger Research Fellow at the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University.

Emmet Cohen is the winner of the 2019 American Pianists Awards, one of the most prestigious events of its kind.Cohen, 28, hails from New York City, where…

Ahead of her September 30 album release show at The Pocket, pianist and singer Kelly Green talks with Leo Sidran about the lifelong pursuit of jazz, finding her musical family, and the Eastern philosophy that has taught her to put everything into her music and then let it go.

Alyn Shipton is a writer, publisher, broadcaster, jazz musician. He has hosted music programmes on BBC Radio 3 in the UK since 1989. His previous books include the award-winning Groovin’ High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie (1999) and Nilsson: The Life of a Singer Songwriter (2013). He is currently lecturer in jazz history and research fellow at the Royal Academy of Music.

After our Deep Dive into Candido Camero, we wanted to provide a highlight reel of recommended listening.At 99, Candido has witnessed and participated in…

Kurt Rosenwinkel might be the preeminent jazz guitarist of his generation. He’s also an artist who has taken some unexpected turns in an already…

We know Justin Stanton as one of the original members of Snarky Puppy, a band that thrives in a state of constant collaboration. But this trumpeter and…