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Updated 18/02/2022
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18/02/2022

The Checkout x Jazz Night in America: Top 5 Collabs

Mark Guiliana, Randy Weston, Herbie Hancock, Robert Glasper, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Kamasi Washington are the artists featured in this retrospective podcast celebrating the top Jazz Night In America and The Checkout productions over the years.
17/04/2023

Melissa Audige-Perkins talks pandemic caretaking fatigue

This one is for all of the parents who managed work and home responsibilities as well as helping their children with online learning during the first few years of the pandemic.
13/09/2021

A Fall Preview Six-Pack: Jazz United Picks Some Winners

As a supplement to WBGO's 2021 Fall Preview, Jazz United picks a half-dozen new releases we're excited about.
30 Mar

China Moses: "It's complicated"

China Moses spoke recently with WBGO’s Kyla Marshell and explained the idea behind the name of her album - a title that seems to reflect both the music and her lived experience.
6 Apr

From the WBGO archives: Catherine Russell live from J&R Music (2008)

Vocalist Catherine Russell chats with WBGO’s Monifa Brown at J&R music in 2008
21 Mar

Celebrating actor Michael B. Jordan's Oscar win and we chat with music power couple Iqua and Adegoke Steve Colson

On the March 21 WBGO Journal, we celebrate actor Michael B. jordan's Oscar win and Doug Doyle chats with music power couple Iqua and Adegoke Steve Colson
23 Apr

Emily Cavanagh: “Does Anyone Need a Song?”

Singer songwriter Emily Cavanagh on how she accidentally became famous in Ireland, started her non profit Song For You, lost the use of her legs and had to relearn how to walk, and what it means to spend a career at the intersection of songs and service.
28 Apr

Jason Miles on Miles Davis at 100: Reinvention and the Sound of the Future

As Miles Davis’s centennial is celebrated around the world, keyboardist and producer Jason Miles reflects on helping shape the trumpeter’s late-career sound on Tutu, Amandla, and Music from Siesta. From synthesizers and sampling to popcorn and boxing at Miles’ house, Miles shares memories of friendship, innovation, and the restless drive to keep evolving.
20 Apr

Getting In the Weeds: The History of 4/20

Long before 4/20 became a global code, marijuana already had a place in jazz culture — and few figures embodied that connection more than Mezz Mezzrow. The Chicago-born clarinetist became a legendary supplier in Harlem, so closely associated with cannabis that for a time, marijuana itself was nicknamed “Mezz.”
24 Apr

Remembering Johnny Griffin, the Little Giant

On what would have been his 98th birthday, Leo Sidran remembers Johnny Griffin, the Chicago-born tenor saxophonist known as “The Little Giant.” Through Griffin’s own words, we revisit his belief that jazz was made by people who chose to feel good in spite of conditions, and how he eventually found a different rhythm of life in France.

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