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Terri Lyne Carrington and Dorthaan Kirk are "Women of Influence" at our Livestream Fundraising EventWBGO'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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The NEA Jazz Masters fellowship, America's highest honor reserved for jazz musicians, is typically bestowed by the National Endowment for the Arts in…
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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…
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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…
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Celebrating Newark's 'First Lady of Jazz,' the WBGO News team spoke with WBGO founder Bob Ottenhoff, NJPAC president John Schreiber, and Bethany Baptist…