Jazz

Dave Popkin has a wide-ranging and inspiring conversation with deeply thoughtful guitarist Stephane Wrembel.

Monty Alexander talks to Leo Sidran about his remarkable journey, the happy accidents and mistakes that led him, and why positivity is so important.

Saxophonist Euge Groove rises from the ashes with "the Phoenix"

"Duo" conversation: Janis Siegel talk with Rene Marie & John Clayton

Willard Jenkins chats with Charles Rahmat Woods about his journey towards honoring his ancestry by learning the Choctaw language, as well as the jazz goings-on of Washington D.C.

Pianist Randy Ingram celebrates a lifelong influence on Sound Within, joined by Bill Evans alumni Joe La Barbera and Rufus Reid. The album reflects Ingram’s long journey to honor Evans while sounding unmistakably like himself.

Vocal trio Duchess is back with A Marvelous Party. They talk with Leo Sidran about their first studio album in nearly a decade.

Tony Bennett would have turned 100 on August 3. Revisiting a 1992 conversation with WBGO's Michael Bourne, recorded just before his remarkable later-career resurgence, Bennett reflects on the songs, composers, and jazz tradition that sustained him throughout more than seventy years as one of America's great interpreters.

WBGO's Doug Doyle reports on the passing of New Jersey jazz singer Jeanie Bryson

Christian McBride reflects on the Montclair Jazz Festival’s accidental beginnings, Montclair’s deep jazz history, the mentors who taught him to pay it forward, and the joy of introducing new listeners to the music he loves.