The early development of radio was distinctly not American. Sharing a common purpose with the early drums of Africa and Asia, its purpose was strategic and tactical communication and signaling, and ...

A new Berlin-based radio station named after jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald is aiming to revive the genres fortunes. As the music used to be an expression of rebellion, emancipation and social protest, ...

BBC Music Jazz, a new digital hub for jazz at the BBC, launches today. As a jazz lover I’m thrilled that BBC Music Jazz will allow everyone from new fans to life-long aficionados to enjoy jazz and ...

At 92 years old, Ed Love is still on the air. The jazz radio afficionado has hosted “Destination Jazz: The Ed Love Program” on WDET since 1983 and worked in the radio industry for years before that.

I first wrote about Soweto Kinch for this column around the release of his 2021 project White Juju, a concert recording commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra which reflected on the global ...

Rusty Hassan’s career in Washington, D.C., jazz radio spans four stations and more than five decades. His recounting of his times on air and the connections he made in the city’s jazz community are ...

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As Contemporary Jazz Maverick Alfonzo Blackwell completes finishing touches on his forthcoming CD “Quintet: Portrait of Alfonzo Blackwell" for his founded Utopia Records imprint, the record label ...