Fall Preview

Drummer, composer and bandleader Billy Hart has been named a 2023 recipient of the Living Legacy Jazz Award, Presented by PECO.

On her new album, 'The Glass Hours,' bassist and composer Linda May Han Oh entrusts form with feeling, enlisting some exceptional peers. Read more in our Album of the Week review.

Among the two dozen or so artists honored with a 2023 JJA Jazz Award, a few stand out for dominant wins in multiple categories.

Gretchen Parlato's new album 'Lean In' highlights her deep simpatico with West African guitarist Lionel Loueke — and explores the ins and outs of motherhood. She opened up about that subject in a recent conversation with WRTI.

Don Sebesky, whose dynamic flair as a composer and arranger left an indelible mark on the sound of modern jazz and pop orchestration, died on April 29 in Maplewood, NJ. He was 85.

A songbook interpreter with a smoky, subtle style, Carole Sloane had a career equally touched by good fortune and bad timing. She died on Jan. 23, of complications from a stroke.

During its first in-person edition since the start of the pandemic era, the Winter Jazzfest found familiar purpose and renewed conviction in delirious overabundance.

In a first-time collaboration, WRTI and WBGO have created a Fall Preview to cover the field, in a range of sounds and styles.

As a supplement to WBGO's 2021 Fall Preview, Jazz United picks a half-dozen new releases we're excited about.

WBGO has assembled 88 reasons for Feeling Good this fall: exciting new albums, fresh discoveries, returning festivals and more.