Jazz Music Interviews
Listen Cassandra Wilson: 'The Guitar Is My Heart'
June 24, 2012 – The singer explores a lifelong relationship with the guitar on her new album, Another Country.
Listen Matt Wilson: 'I Hear Melody In All Rhythm'
June 23, 2012 – The jazz drummer says great percussionists like Buddy Rich and Max Roach make their cymbals "sing."
Watch Kate McGarry: A Singer Inspired By The Spoken Word
June 17, 2012 – While making her new album, McGarry researched what her singing idols sounded like in conversation.
Listen One Father, Eight Sons, Nine Shiny Brass Bells
June 17, 2012 – A jazzman and his musical progeny in The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble join forces on a new album.
Listen Mike Huckabee's Musical Education
June 5, 2012 – The politician plays bass in a rock group, but says he grew up listening to big-band jazz.
Listen Days With Dizzy: Arturo Sandoval On His Trumpet Mentor
May 12, 2012 – The Cuban trumpeter befriended Dizzy Gillespie when the American jazzman visited Havana in 1977.
Listen On Jazz Day, Jason Moran Makes The Case For Relevance
April 30, 2012 – In the U.S., the audience is aging, and the music has struggled to connect with younger generations.
Watch The Jazz Drummer Who Makes Music Out Of Everything
April 17, 2012 – Han Bennink hears sonic possibilities in many objects beyond the typical drum set.
Read Equilateral Triangles: The Challenge Of The Piano Trio
April 4, 2012 – Jazzman Craig Taborn reflects on the possibilities of the format, and those who exemplified it.
Listen Wes Montgomery: Early Recordings By A Late Guitar Great
March 25, 2012 – A new collection of rare cuts shows off the jazz guitarist's early career.
Watch Esperanza Spalding: Jazz As 'Radio Music'
March 18, 2012 – The Grammy winner explores the link between jazz and African-American identity on a new album.
Listen Vijay Iyer: The Physical Experience of Rhythm
March 16, 2012 – The jazz pianist imagines music as human movement in his new trio album Accelerando.
Listen Jenny Scheinman: The Right Amount Of 'Mayhem'
February 26, 2012 – No stranger to collaboration, the violinist leads a band of creative risk-takers on her new album.
Listen Robert Glasper: A Unified Field Theory For Black Music
February 25, 2012 – The pianist's new album, Black Radio, connects the dots between jazz, rock, hip-hop and soul.
Listen Catherine Russell: The Fresh Air In-Studio Concert
February 21, 2012 – The standards singer performs several tracks from her new solo album, Strictly Romancin'.
