Jazz Night brings you three concert highlights from the Southern New Jersey festival featuring Gabrielle Cavassa, Shemekia Copeland and Pedrito Martinez.
Shemekia Copeland performs at the Exit Zero Jazz Festival in Cape May, NJ.
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Watch Shemekia Copeland play the 2021 Exit Zero Jazz Festival and, on our radio episode, get inside her eclectic sound and topical lyrics, connecting her to blues icons from Ruth Brown to Ma Rainey.
Helen Sung in concert.
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Filmed at Dizzy's Club, Helen Sung's quartet plays several pieces born out of the sorrow, loss and anxiety caused by the pandemic.
Bassist and composer Marcus Miller, performing during a tribute to Miles Davis on July 13, 2011 in Montreux, France.
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Join us for the premiere of electric bassist (and Miles Davis collaborator) Marcus Miller's retrospective concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis going electric!
Performances and speeches honor this year's NEA Jazz Masters award recipients, including Terri Lyne Carrington, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Henry Threadgill & Phil Schaap. Watch live Thu, Apr 22 at 8PM ET!
Jazz Night visits the St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church, an evolving house of worship that has incorporated John Coltrane's A Love Supreme album as their chief liturgical text.
Jon Batiste performs an intimate set in New York City.
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Jon Batiste was born for show business. Hear him play an intimate set in New York and on our radio show as we trace his story to his current gig as band leader of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Grammy-winning trumpetist Keyon Harrold performs "Ethereal Souls" at Fontaine Capel in Socrates Sculpture Garden of Queens, N.Y..
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Before Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride and Brian Blade recorded their new studio album, RoundAgain, they recorded this special hour-long concert video.
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For musicians who want to play together while following social distancing guidelines, the solution goes beyond a Zoom call. Pianist Dan Tepfer leads us down the technological rabbit hole.
Jazzmeia Horn performs at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.
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The New York Police Department kept musicians of color from the stage for almost three decades by revoking their cabaret cards, a license required to perform for pay in nightclubs.
Michela Marino Lerman and Russell Hall perform at home.
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Tap dancer Michela Marino Lerman and bassist Russell Hall rattle our senses with a performance evoking the soundscapes of protests taking place in cities across America.
Camille Thurman and Darrell Green perform in their home.
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With time together on their side, singer and composer Becca Stevens teams up with her husband and Attacca Quartet violist, Nathan Schram, to perform a brooding version of "I Will Avenge You."
Jon Batiste was born for show business. Hear him play an intimate set in New York and on our radio show as we trace his story to his current gig as band leader of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Bassist Linda May Han Oh and pianist Fabian Almazan perform at home.
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Musical couple José James and Taali perform the song "I Found A Love" while quarantined in their New York City apartment, in the first of a new series of videos from Jazz Night in America.
