Donate

Duke Ellington

Jazz Portraits

Arts, Culture & Media

Jazz music has a long tradition of loving and sly portraits. Music historian and Village Voice jazz critic Gary Giddens takes us through some of them.

A tilde added to the sign for the N subway line in Sunset Park, a heavily Hispanic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.

Ride New York City’s N train, with a Spanish twist

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

When Duke Ellington Played Kabul

Arts, Culture & Media

When Duke Ellington Played Kabul

Arts, Culture & Media

Darcy James Argue’s ‘Brooklyn Babylon’ almost never was

Arts, Culture & Media

What’s on Marianne Faithfull’s iPod

Arts, Culture & Media

Sixties icon Marianne Faithfull on her new covers album, what’s on her iPod and the music she calls the soundtrack of her life.

‘Letter from America’ Examines the United States Through a British Lens

Our discussion about BBC broadcaster Alistair Cooke and his iconic radio program, Letter from America, continues with journalist  Alvin Hall. The BBC, in conjunction with Boston University, recently unveiled an archive of Cooke’s program, which broadcast every week from 1946 to 2004.   Hall notes Cooke’s admiration for jazz, the ultimate American art form. In one program […]

Music Heard on Air for December 20, 2011

Music Heard on Air

Tunes spun on The World between our reports for December 20, 2011. Artists featured are: Tuh Pa Warez, Craig Taubman, Toubab Krewe, Duke Ellington.

The World

Global Hit

Arts, Culture & Media

The World’s Adeline Sire profiles a Dutch all-reed quintet which plays music from the early Renaissance to jazz.

Latest Episode

Portraits, Chuck Close, Duke Ellington