The saxophonist Joshua Redman didn’t spend much time with his father growing up. But he spent a lot of time with his father’s music.
One of the major artists of the Harlem Renaissance never actually lived in New York.
This special edition of Studio 360 features Tony Award-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, first musical to open in Cuba since the Revolution, and a tribute to Billie Holiday.
Red and Hot: Willis Conover brought the liberating sounds of American jazz to Eastern Europe in the midst of the Cold War. Now there is a drive to honor him on a US stamp.
Maria Schneider doesn’t release an album very often, so when she does, it’s an event. She let us inside her writing process for her latest, “The Thompson Fields.”
PRI's The World host Marco Werman is in the middle of a two-week, cross-country writing residency aboard Amtrak trains. His first stop was in New Orleans, where he heard about the death of famed trumpet player Travis "Trumpet Black" Hill and was reminded of how Japan and New Orleans are linked by a love of jazz
Crazy or brilliant? Jazz legend Charles Mingus came up with a method for toilet training his cat, so we tried it out on a kitty named Dizzy.
Cassandra Wilson—arguably the most important jazz singer of her generation—pays tribute to the legendary Billie Holliday with her latest album, “Coming Forth by Day.”
Even people who don’t like jazz know Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue.” What makes it so different — and why does it continue to influence musicians today?
The writer/director of “Whiplash” came out of nowhere to make a movie that got nominated for Best Picture.
The star of Oz and The Wire reads Charles Mingus's secret masterpiece: a guide to toilet training your cat.