New York Voices: Where It All Began

Herb Scott on fostering live music in D.C.

Willard Jenkins talks with Herb Scott of Capitol Hill Jazz Foundation about thinking outside the box, to foster continued live entertainment in his home city of Washington D.C.

New York Voices: Where It All Began

As New York Voices prepares to retire after nearly forty years together, Darmon Meader looks back with Janis Siegel on the unlikely origins of one of jazz's defining vocal groups - and the role WBGO played from the very beginning.

One Flight Up: A New Jazz Club Rises in Lower Manhattan

A new jazz club in New York's Financial District is part of a surprising wave of venues opening across the city. Leo Sidran visits One Flight Up, where drummer Joe Strasser and his longtime friend and business partner Mark Quinn have turned a decades-old dream into reality.

Paula Cole and the Song That Took on a Life of Its Own

Thirty years after Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? became one of the defining songs of the 1990s, Paula Cole reflects on writing, recording and ultimately misunderstanding the success of a song that never fit neatly into a category.

Nasar Abadey and Supernova

Willard Jenkins chats with Nasar Abadey, leader of the group Supernova, ahead of their 2026 D.C. Jazz Fest appearance.