Dorthaan Kirk

WBGO's Livestream Fundraising Event 2022, at 7 p.m. EDT on June 22, will celebrate women of influence — from musicians to management, community advocates to NEA Jazz Masters.

This Saturday, Jan. 30, the New Jersey Film Festival will be the first of three film festivals to screen a documentary about the formation of the state's…

We can’t gather in person right now, but we can still be together.WBGO’s Fall 2020 Jazz-a-thon flows out of that conviction, with a nod to the past and an…

Every year since 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts selects a new class of NEA Jazz Masters, a formal recognition reserved for seasoned musicians…

Dorthaan Kirk can vividly recall the evening she introduced her fellow 2020 NEA Jazz Master, the esteemed bassist Reggie Workman, for an event at the…

The NEA Jazz Masters fellowship, America's highest honor reserved for jazz musicians, is typically bestowed by the National Endowment for the Arts in…

Originally set for early April at SFJAZZ, the 2020 NEA Jazz Masters gala and concert was derailed by the coronavirus pandemic. It was remade into an…

In honor of WBGO's own Dorthaan Kirk, a 2020 NEA Jazz Master, hear our recent celebration of her legacy.It would be impossible to overstate the importance…

Celebrating Newark's 'First Lady of Jazz,' the WBGO News team spoke with WBGO founder Bob Ottenhoff, NJPAC president John Schreiber, and Bethany Baptist…