The Art of the Story

Our online presentation features remarks from Wayne Shorter, along with testimonials from a starry array of his proteges and peers.

The 2022 season of Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage features an impressive lineup of improvisers, on and off the 30th annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival.

Photographer John Rogers combines jazz portraits with street scenes in a haunting and handsome new book.

He had the most stunning victory of the night at the Grammy Awards, winning Album of the Year. But for Jon Batiste, it's less a culmination than a continuum.

Donald Harrison preserves legacy as an alto saxophonist and composer, and as Big Chief of the Congo Nation Afro-New Orleans Cultural Group. He is this year’s recipient of the A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for Jazz Advocacy.

"I've never really defined myself within a genre of music," says Stanley Clarke, on the cusp of his induction as an NEA Jazz Master. "I play bass."

For more than 60 years, Billy Hart has brought an earthy, exacting style to the art of jazz drumming. He officially joins the ranks of NEA Jazz Masters this week.

The Art of the Story, from WBGO News, toasts vocalist Cassandra Wilson as she joins the ranks of NEA Jazz Masters.

Their Duke Ellington repertory concert was an early casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. Two years later, Marcus Roberts and the American Symphony Orchestra are finally presenting Duke's music, with some new lessons.