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The brilliant song stylist Nancy Wilson has recorded more than 60 albums and moved effortlessly between jazz, pop and R&B. In recent years, Wilson has hosted NPR's popular program Jazz Profiles. She joins McPartland to swap stories and sing songs, including "Easy Living" and "The Nearness of You."

Indiana Avenue, the "main stem" of the city's black community, hosted master musicians nightly.

Singer, Jazz House Kids CEO and co-founder of the Montclair Jazz Festival Melissa Walker chats with WBGO's Doug Doyle

The pregame of Super Bowl LIX featured performances from various jazz artists

Jazz as sacred music within and beyond the boundaries of the organized African American church. Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, John Coltrane and others are featured.

Revisit this 1990 episode featuring the legendary cornetist as he teams up with his wife, host Marian McPartland, to perform "St. James Infirmary."

The legendary jazzman turns 87 on July 31, 2005. He and his trio have just released a new CD, For My Father, and he joins John Patitucci and Jack De Johnette for the Great Jazz Trio's upcoming CD, S'Wonderful.

Better known as the "keys half" of the Benevento/Russo Duo, Marco Benevento developed Invisible Baby from a batch of compositions that didn't fit the duo format. Here, he plays jazz piano backed by spot-on rhythmic textures and powerful crescendos.

The guitarist was recruited by Sonny Rollins at age 16, and he's been dazzling listeners and fellow musicians ever since. Hear him perform The Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" with host Marian McPartland.

Sampled saxophones and cymbals have re-emerged in dance halls, in innovative forms of house music.