Ron Carter

WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Janis Burley Wilson, CEO/President of the August Wilson African American Cultural Center and jazz singer Vanisha Gould about the 12th annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival

A lot of great music is ahead this weekend at the Newport Jazz Festival, and WBGO can help get you there. Meanwhile, here are five acts to get excited about.

Birdland will fly.It is off the endangered jazz club list which included Jazz Standard in Manhattan, and in Los Angeles, Blue Whale. Those clubs have…

Nicole Mitchell, "No One Can Stop Us"New music and ideas almost seem to pour out of Nicole Mitchell, a flutist and composer of expansive vision and…

Jeremy Pelt, “Sir Carter”Jeremy Pelt has always, it seems, had the ability to galvanize a room. As a trumpeter and a bandleader, he knows how to pace his…

May the Fourth: Star Wars Day is also a special day for jazz fans, thanks to bassist Ron Carter.