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Political analyst and television and radio host Steve Adubato, Jr. is giving you a chance to get to know who will be in charge of the Garden State…

This coming Wednesday September 25, WBGO partners with United Way of Greater Newark and Community FoodBank of New Jersey to put a dent into food…

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 the September 14 WBGO Journal, host Doug Doyle has in-depth chat with singer Ms. Lisa Fischer and WBGO's film critic Harlan Jacobson checks in the from Toronto International Film Festival

On the December 21 WBGO Journal, Blues People music, remembering Olympian Peter Westbrook and reviews of The Brutalist and A Complete Unknown

The WBGO News team has once again been awarded by the New York Association of Black Journalists. The NYABJ Awards honor excellence in journalism created…

The ground-breaking comic strip Doonesbury has been with us for 50 years.It was the first daily comic strip to win a Pulitzer Prize for tackling social…

On this episode of AOS, WBGO's Leo Sidran profiles the Huntertones

Former WBGO employee Carmen Balentine is running his first NYC Marathon this Sunday, November 4th.Balentine now works as a Major Gifts Officer at amfAR,…

On the June 8 WBGO Journal, a deep dive into the new book about the legacy of Lee Berk and a chat with U.S. Women's Wrestling Coach Terry Steiner