Jazz

Leo Sidran and WBGO celebrate Janis Siegel on her birthday

Drummer Cindy Blackman Santana chats with WBGO's Doug Doyle about her upcoming "Jazz at the Bandshell" concert and her new album "Coherence"

Willard Jenkins talks with Herb Scott of Capitol Hill Jazz Foundation about thinking outside the box, to foster continued live entertainment in his home city of Washington D.C.

As New York Voices prepares to retire after nearly forty years together, Darmon Meader looks back with Janis Siegel on the unlikely origins of one of jazz's defining vocal groups - and the role WBGO played from the very beginning.

A new jazz club in New York's Financial District is part of a surprising wave of venues opening across the city. Leo Sidran visits One Flight Up, where drummer Joe Strasser and his longtime friend and business partner Mark Quinn have turned a decades-old dream into reality.

Willard Jenkins chats with Nasar Abadey, leader of the group Supernova, ahead of their 2026 D.C. Jazz Fest appearance.

Long before Herbie Hancock became the musical giant he is today, there was a time when he too, like so many other musicians past and present, would pull all-nighters practicing for an especially crucial performance. In conversation recently with WBGO’s Pat Prescott, Hancock looked back on his formative years, landing the gig with Donald Byrd, and moving to New York City.

Janis Siegel & Lezlie Harrison in conversation with vocalist/trumpeter Bria Skonberg

On the July 11 WBGO Journal, Pat Prescott chats with Herbie Hancock and Doug Doyle takes you to the Count Basie Center for the Arts as NJ natives Fred Schneider and Kate Pierson of The B-52s are now on its Walk of Fame

WBGO's Doug Doyle reports on The B-52s founders Fred Schneider and Kate Pierson being honored on the Count Basie Center for the Arts Walk of Fame in Red Bank