This week, The Jazz Spectrum celebrates Worldwide Week, 10/23-10/27, with programming that features international jazz history and artists. DJ Marta Lasota's program of Spanish Jazz will play this Wednesday beginning at 7am.
Anyone who claims that jazz is dead is clearly not familiar with the resurrecting powers of Cécile McLorin Salvant. Her new album, Dreams and Daggers, proves she deserves a space among jazz legends.
An interview with Cuban poet, writer, journalist, and dissident, Jorge Castillo.
Yosvany Terry is a lecturer in the Harvard Music Department, director of the Harvard Jazz Bands, and a Grammy nominee.
On Sunday October 20, 2019, the Chick Corea Trilogy—pianist Chick Corea, bassist Christian McBride, and drummer Brian Blade—returned to Boston during their 2019 world tour, this time playing in Symphony Hall in a concert organized by the Celebrity Series of Boston.
On a rainy Wednesday night, Berklee’s Red Room at Cafe 939 is packed full with the conservatory’s own eager students along with those from neighboring schools, waiting excitedly to hear saxophonist, singer, and songwriter Braxton Cook.
Randy Wong is an exotica and jazz musician whose works are regularly featured on national programs such as NPR. He leads the exotica group, The WAITIKI 7, which has recently produced two chart-topping albums Adventures in Paradise and New Sounds of Exotica. Their work will be featured in Thursday’s broadcast.
Professor Ingrid Monson is the Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music and Professor of African and African American Studies.