Wynton Marsalis

WBGO’s Gary Walker interviews pianist Isaiah J. Thompson about his new album “The Power of the Spirit” and the role of mentors in his life.

WBGO’s Jonathan Chimene shares photos from an evening of performances and readings celebrating the late author Stanley Crouch.

Suite to be performed by The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, with special guest clarinetist Ye Huang

"The Peanut Vendor," featuring Wynton Marsalis and Herlin Riley, is the first taste of A Gift to Pops, an all-star Louis Armstrong tribute coming this fall.

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…

“Jazz music is the perfect metaphor for democracy.”So declares Wynton Marsalis — trumpeter, composer, Jazz at Lincoln Center artistic director — in a…

An Election Week special in Take FiveKahil El’Zabar, “America the Beautiful”The prolific percussionist Kahil El’Zabar, a longtime anchor of the creative…

It wasn't your typical crowd in the Rose Theater one afternoon last fall, for a sold-out concert by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton…

Wynton Marsalis has always been deeply engaged in the subject of American race relations.The issue was a crucial part of his education as a young musician…

The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation has created the Louis Armstrong Emergency Fund for Jazz Musicians to provide much needed support to vocalists…