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Jazz After Hours host Brian Delp has been entertaining listeners around the world on WBGO for more than 23 years. Brian sat down with News Director Doug…

On this episode of AOS, WBGO's Leo Sidran chats with the members of the Huntertones

The Jazz and music world continues to mourn the loss of one its most beloved artists. Pianist, keyboardist, composer and Bandleader Chick Corea. Corea…

WBGO Kids Jazz Concert Series and
The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation present

LOUIS ARMSTRONG & LATIN MUSIC

Performance by Multi-Grammy Nominated
BOBBY SANABRIA MULTIVERSE BIG BAND
featuring ANTOINETE MONTAGUE, JANIS SIEGEL & JENNIFER JADE LEDESNA
SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1:00 P.M.
Main Theater

FREE KIDS CONCERT
Adults must be accompanied by at least one child.

RESERVE FREE TICKETS HERE

or call the Hostos Box Office at (718) 518-4455
Mon-Fri, 10am to 5pm and 2 hours before show time
Hailed as one of the most influential and popular musicians in modern music, trumpeter Louis Armstrong (1901-71) rose out of poverty in New Orleans and became the Prometheus of jazz*. Growing up in the Crescent City, Armstrong heard music from the Caribbean — especially Cuba — and was greatly influenced by the exceptional Cuban trumpeter Manuel Pérez. Armstrong’s own recorded version of the then-popular Cuban song "El Manisero (The Peanut Vendor)” would cement that Jazz/Latin connection.

Multi-Grammy Nominated Bobby Sanabria MULTIVERSE Big Band will honor the unique connections that New Orleans and Louis Armstrong have to Latin music in this special FREE CONCERT FOR KIDS. The band will rhythmically retrace the African footprints of Latin jazz, from The Big Apple to the Big Easy, and back to Armstrong, who lived much of his adult years in Queens, New York.

*Albert Murray, music and cultural critic

The WBGO Kids Jazz Concert Series brings world-renowned jazz musicians to concert halls and venues throughout New York and New Jersey. These concerts give young listeners the chance to discover the enjoyment of jazz, improvisation, and musical collaboration.

On this episode of The Art of the Story, WBGO's Dave Popkin chats with blues singer and guitarist Eric Bibb

On the August 12 edition of the WBGO Journal, we'll take a look back at the devastation of the atomic attacks on Japan and WBGO's Lee Mergner chats with innovative guitarist Julian Lage

On the May 17 WBGO Journal, we took a look at NJ Transit's first strike in more than 40 years and WBGO's Gary Walker chats with pianist and educator Eli Yamin

On Friday, Feb. 12, WBGO News Director Doug Doyle moderated a virtual panel discussion around The Black Church, a documentary on PBS, airing locally on…

With people being filled with anxiety, stress, depression and isolation, jazz musicians have been doing their part to try and bring "live" music to them…

WBGO celebrates four decades of jazz and its magnificent diversity on one night, Friday, January 11th, at SOB’s during Winter Jazzfest in New York…