A musical podcast with pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and 2024 Jazz Master Amina Claudine Myers exploring her life in music from gospel to jazz.
Celebrating 1984 NEA Jazz Master Max Roach’s centenary with a conversation about the documentary “Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes” with co-directors Sam Pollard and Ben Shapiro.
Meet "Little Joe" Hernández: Tejano Music Performer and 2023 National Heritage Fellow who never left his roots, with a career spanning almost 70 years, with 70 albums, and five Grammy Awards.
A conversation with Gil Rose who founded and heads three organizations-- the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), Odyssey Opera and BMOP/Sound—that greatly expand the repertoire of contemporary music.
Meet former Singing Sergeant and current Director of Music and Opera at the National Endowment for the Arts Ann Meier Baker—the woman who went to boot camp so she could sing with a professional chorus!
Almeta Ingram-Miller, leader of the powerhouse gospel group and 2022 National Heritage Fellows the Legendary Ingramettes, talks about the group's six decades-long journey.
Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and 2021 NEA Jazz Master Henry Threadgill reflects on his musical life and shares his thoughts about improvised music.
In this 2021 interview, singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and artistic director of Silkroad Rhiannon Giddens talks about the Black roots of American music, excavating the past to bring forgotten music and stories forward, her opera Omar, and h...
In today’s podcast, I speak with U.S. Army veteran Jaymes Poling and jazz trumpeter Dominick Farinacci about creating and presenting Modern Warrior LIVE--a theatrical experience that mixes first-person narrative with music and multimedia to chronicl...
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...
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.
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...
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.