Despite no classes, BSU’s Beaux Arts Ballroom was a fair bit livelier than the rest of campus as around 100 people attended a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration event on Monday.
Respected journalist, author, music historian, and blogger Marc Myers chats with WBGO News Director Doug Doyle about his new book Anatomy of 55 More Songs: The Oral History of Top Hits that Changed Rock, Pop and Soul
To kick off the new year, our music journalist Craig Havighurst offers this in-depth analysis of how two great and sweeping genres - jazz and Americana - can have such different audiences and narratives in contemporary life despite their common origins in the blues. Reviewed are two releases - the 10th anniversary vinyl edition of Esperanza Spalding's Grammy Award-winning Radio Music Society and sax player JD Allen's new and provocatively titled Americana, Vol. 2.
WBGO’s Bobby Sanabria talks with fellow Puerto Rico native, the flutist Nestor Torres, and arranger Corey Allen about collaborating on the Dominican Suite album that touches on that country’s tragic and heroic past.