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WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Laiona Michelle about her musical inspired by the life of Nina Simone

Awilda Rivera has been the host of Evening Jazz on WBGO for the last 18 years. This Friday, June 30, will mark her final shift of the show. We'll…

Our film critic Harlan Jacobson got the Blues this Christmas by dropping in on Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the new film based on an August Wilson play from…

As states across the nation open up their economies, we are just beginning to get a sense of the toll on the families of essential workers, like nurses…

Woody Shaw, the groundbreaking trumpeter, would have turned 75 on Dec. 24.Though he was born in North Carolina, Woody grew up in Newark from age one —…

WBGO's Janice Kirkel reports food insecurity continues to grow in underserved communities as food banks struggle to keep up with the demand

In this edition of Director's Cuts, Weekend Edition Sunday's music director Ned Wharton reviews two new projects from Mark Oliver Everett, also known simply as "E." His group Eels has a new disc on DreamWorks called Shootenanny! and under the name MC Honky, the fictitious rapper produces "Self Help Rock" on the CD I Am the Messiah on spinART Records.

New York State officials are marking the completion of the Moynihan Train Hall. Moynihan Hall connects to Penn Station underground into the nearby James…

Grete Bergman was among the first Gwich'in women to get traditional facial markings since colonizers barred the practice. She and markings artist Sarah Whalen-Lunn did it for their daughters.

Drummer/composer Mark Guiliana traverses many musical landscapes, from modern jazz (Brad Mehldau), Tunisian oud music (Dhafer Youssef), Hasidic reggae…