In this tuneful podcast, bassist Stanley Clarke talks about his long and storied career, including his musical partnerships with Chick Corea and their band Return to Forever, his solo career, his collaboration with George Duke, and his approach to wo...
This week, the podcast is divided into two parts with one subject—poetry. Part 1 is excerpts from my 2018 interview with poet Melissa Range while part 2 excerpts my 2021 interview with 2017-2019 US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. In this poetry-filled ...
In this podcast Terence Blanchard talks about bringing the sounds of blues and jazz to his opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones, his long collaboration with Spike Lee, and the joy of playing live with his group the E Collective.
Novelist Marjan Kamali talks about her recent novel The Stationery Shop-- a story that begins in 1953 in Iran and spans 60 years. We talk about Persian poetry and food, living on the hyphen between Iranian and American, and the juggling act of writin...
We’re marking Women’s history month by replaying my in-depth interview with the late Valerie Boyd who wrote the acclaimed “Wrapped in Rainbows: the Biography of Zora Neale Hurston.” In this podcast, Boyd discusses Hurston’s life and work, especially...
Violist Ashleigh Gordon is the co-founder and artistic/executive director of Castle of our Skins—a music initiative in Boston that celebrates Black artistry in music. In this podcast, Gordon talks about founding and programming a Black arts organizat...
Meet the new chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson! In this podcast, Chair Jackson shares her thoughts about the arts, an artful life, and the Arts Endowment at this time of reopening, rethinking, and reimagining the...
We revisit a conversation with 2019 NEA Jazz Master composer, conductor, and arranger Maria Schneider who creates highly original and evocative compositions for her jazz orchestra.
Niyati Dhokai talks about creating an intergenerational community of veterans, service members, and their families through the arts with support from Creative Forces.
This week, we turn our attention to the newly published Disability Design Report commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts in conversation with the report's researcher Joshua Halstead and Grace Jun, designer and CEO of Open Style Lab.