The Art of the Story

Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein and Bill Stewart look back on the unlikely beginnings of one of jazz’s longest-running trios, from their early gigs at Augie’s on the Upper West Side to their new album, Rhombus.

In his annual birthday conversation with his son Leo, Ben Sidran reflects on aging, ambition, practice and the surprising persistence of a worldview formed long ago.

Dave Popkin has a wide-ranging and inspiring conversation with deeply thoughtful guitarist Stephane Wrembel.

Monty Alexander talks to Leo Sidran about his remarkable journey, the happy accidents and mistakes that led him, and why positivity is so important.

Willard Jenkins chats with Charles Rahmat Woods about his journey towards honoring his ancestry by learning the Choctaw language, as well as the jazz goings-on of Washington D.C.

Pianist Randy Ingram celebrates a lifelong influence on Sound Within, joined by Bill Evans alumni Joe La Barbera and Rufus Reid. The album reflects Ingram’s long journey to honor Evans while sounding unmistakably like himself.

WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with legendary songwriter and producer David Porter about his new memoir "The Soul Man"

Vocal trio Duchess is back with A Marvelous Party. They talk with Leo Sidran about their first studio album in nearly a decade.

Dave Popkin catches up with rising blues artist Harrell Davenport, still in his teens and already making big waves.

Tony Bennett would have turned 100 on August 3. Revisiting a 1992 conversation with WBGO's Michael Bourne, recorded just before his remarkable later-career resurgence, Bennett reflects on the songs, composers, and jazz tradition that sustained him throughout more than seventy years as one of America's great interpreters.