When photographer Art Kane assembled 77 jazz musicians for the iconic 1958 photo A Great Day in Harlem, only three women stood among the crowd: Marian McPartland, Mary Lou Williams, and Hazel Scott.

As a jazz performer with a career spanning decades, I've seen the music industry and jazz scene continually evolve, embracing radio, television, the internet, and beyond to grow and interact with the ...

KMHD Jazz Radio is celebrating its 40th year on the air this month. KMHD is the top-rated jazz station in the nation at a time when full-time jazz radio stations are rare. It has been a staple of the ...

Jazz is coming back to Northeast Ohio airwaves in a big way. Ideastream Public Media on Feb. 26 is launching the area’s first and only full-time jazz channel, JazzNEO. Among the many people champing ...

Known for his three-decade tenure at WBGO in New York City, jazz radio host Rob Crocker passed away on March 7. Crocker was also a famed part of the Tokyo radio scene, where he introduced Japanese ...

Chicago’s ferociously competitive and oft-pugnacious jazz radio community finally has something to agree upon: The impending demise of WBEE-AM 1570 — the Harvey, Ill., jazz station that will become a ...

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 ...

Let's talk about you. Every year, NPR's Audience Insight and Research division publishes a study that profiles the public radio audience for the demographic data, plus tastes and preferences. This ...

NPR Music's Felix Contreras presents some of the stand out performances of beloved holiday tradition, celebrating its 25th anniversary.

This is the second in a four-part series covering the past, present and potential future of jazz in Portland. Read our first article, surveying Portland's defunct jazz clubs, here. The minute hand ...

Eric Jackson, a jazz host who inspired audiences in Boston for decades, died on Saturday morning. He was 72 years old. Jackson came from music. He was the son of jazz enthusiast Sam Jackson. In a ...

In 1994, director Jean Bach gave us "A Great Day in Harlem," a one-hour documentary that peels back the remarkable story ...