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This episode of The Buzz comes from the JJA archive. In 2010, Django Reinhardt's centennial year, the JJA's Jazz Matters series at The New School in New York presented a panel titled Jazz Scholarship:...

The Marin-born author and former WFMU host joins us to discuss 'Morning in Marin,' his history of how Alan Watts, the Grateful Dead, George Lucas, and Philip K. Dic…

Producer Bob Ezrin talks The Jayhawks' Sanctuary Park, recording live in Toronto, leaving the US, and holding artists to their best work.

Producer Bob Ezrin talks The Jayhawks' Sanctuary Park, recording live in Toronto, leaving the US, and holding artists to their best work.

David Katz on Dub Revolution: how King Tubby, Lee Perry, and Scientist built dub, and why its origins run earlier than the usual story allows.

For John Coltrane's hundredth birthday, this episode of The Buzz has host Lawrence Peryer delivering a solo monologue tracing how critics heard Coltrane while he was alive, and how that judgment has s...

Fling ii's Brad Gowland and Richard Murphy on '3' — forty-minute jams in a Michigan church cut to six-minute tracks, with pedal steel over motorik.

Producer Martin Bisi on the same Brooklyn building since 1979, the rezoning of Gowanus, why genres work like social movements, and Dancing on the Power Lines.

The saxophonist on McCoy Tyner, his friendship with Pharoah Sanders, and why he doesn't observe the jazz lineage — he is it. Plus the album's title story.

REMINDER: Historic Seattle band The Heats (aka The Heaters), will perform a FREE, all ages outdoor concert starting at 5 p.m. this Sunday, Aug. 23, at Marvista

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Sound artist Josh Mason on his Greyfade FOLIO release 'Kicking A Dark Horse,' a modular album and book built to be entered at any point.

Psyched! Radio’s nocturnal programming brings a deep, immersive blend of Iberoamerican, local, and underground independent music.

The four-time Grammy winner on the new Social Science album, trusting collaborators before they've earned it, and calling herself a frustrated drummer.

The City of Normandy Park Parks and Recreation Department is seeking local artists and makers to participate in art displays at the Jazz Finale Festival on Sund

For this episode of The Buzz, Lawrence Peryer talks with 2025 JJA Jazz Hero Ruth Griggs, longtime director of the Northampton Jazz Festival, about the trade-off facing a fifteen-year-old, mostly-free ...

The Hit Parade host on what better data revealed about hit songs, why country radio guards its gate, and his refusal to believe in guilty pleasures.

Synthesist Danalogue (The Comet Is Coming, Soccer96) on his solo debut Teleportations, vintage synths, sci-fi world-building, and imagination as hope.

Suzanne Ciani on CIANI/ORKEST, her live album pairing the Buchla with the 50-piece Metropole Orkest, quadraphonic sound, and saying yes at eighty.

The City of Normandy Park Parks and Recreation Department is seeking local artists and makers to participate in the Jazz Finale Festival Art Market on Sunday, August 30, 2026...more

Trumpeter Steven Bernstein on his chordless trio ResoNation Trio, Scotty Hard's dub reinvention Ultra Resonance, and why he still plays Levon Helm's music.

 For this episode of The Buzz, JJA Book Committee chair Bob Blumenthal speaks with the winners of the 2026 JJA Jazz Awards’ two Book of the Year categories: pianist Matthew Shipp, honored for Bla...

The coolest little radio station in the galaxy! We are people powered, arts oriented radio for Northeast Seattle and beyond. We have a DIY spirit and our passion for great radio that extends well beyo...

Trumpeter Dave Douglas on his album Transcend, Booker Little, Jack Whitten, and the creative discipline of not knowing.

Ora Cogan discusses her Sacred Bones debut, protest music, collective activism, and the shifting meaning of "Katie Cruel" over a decade.

VP Records engineer Billy Polo on restoring reggae's rarest tapes, archiving Jamaican music history, and the art of mastering for digital.

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For this episode ofThe Buzz, JJA President Emeritus Howard Mandel speaks with Zan Stewart, the JJA's 2026 Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism honoree.Zan Stewart spent thirty-five years covering j...

Critic George Grella discusses his book Minimalist Music, arguing that Reich, Glass, and the genre are really about one thing: time.

Canadian violinist Meredith Bates discusses her new album The Observer Effect — improvisation, quantum physics, and feminine intuition.

Toronto drummer Nick Fraser talks about his atmospheric trio album Areas, long-term collaboration with Kris Davis and Tony Malaby, and Canadian creative music.

The City of Normandy Park is committed to cultivating a strong and visible arts presence in public life, and has issued a "Call to Artists". "We are calling on

Composer Maria Schneider on her EP American Crow, jazz as democratic practice, the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize, and decades of music advocacy on The Tonearm.

Call to Artist! The city is currently looking for a muralist to paint the exterior of our public restroom at Marvista Park. For a full description of the artist call requirements, read the call...

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Miles Davis would have turned one hundred this year. The centennial has brought the somewhat predictable wave of reissues, retrospectives, and tributes. But which Miles keeps coming back? The suit-and...

Saxophonist Caroline Davis discusses Fallows, her debut solo album recorded in Wyoming, prepared saxophone, the Organelle, and her work as a prison abolitionist.

Composer and conductor Miho Hazama discusses her new album Frames, studying with Jim McNeely, and leading the Danish Radio Big Band.