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09/25/2026

Yo-Yo Ma performs with the Michigan Marching Band at the University of Michigan game Saturday! They are performing a "Lord of the Rings" halftime show for the film's 25th anniversary. Presented by UMS.

Yo-Yo Ma will join the Michigan Marching Band for a “Lord of the Rings”-themed halftime show Saturday at the Big House.

09/25/2026

If you listen to 90.9 WRCJ you've heard the music of Detroit-based composer and musician Xiao D**g Wei, master of the Chinese two-stringed violin known as the erhu. She’s the headliner at the Concert of Colors this Saturday, September 26 at the Detroit Shipping Company.

Concert of Colors is a free, multicultural music festival that brings together artists and audiences from around the world.

09/24/2026

Listen to 90.9 WRCJ tonight (9/24) for "Live With C #".
The jazz starts at 7pm!

09/23/2026

90.9 WRCJ remembers John Coltrane (September 23, 1926 - July 17, 1967). Today would be the 100th birthday of the jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer! Maxine Michaels, John Penney and Linda Yohn celebrated with his music this last weekend and there's more to come...

09/23/2026

Thanks to the support of The Kresge Foundation, 90.9 WRCJ can travel to and setup at events throughout Southeast Michigan, like the Belle Isle Art Fair and the Detroit Jazz Festival. Here is a picture of Linda Yohn and Bridgette Blackburn on location with the 90.9 WRCJ tent. To learn more about Kresge visit https://kresge.org/

09/21/2026

If you listen to 90.9 WRCJ you've heard the music of Detroit-based composer and musician Xiao D**g Wei, master of the Chinese two-stringed violin known as the erhu. She’s the headliner at the next performance in the Concert of Colors neighborhood series on Saturday, September 26, at the Detroit Shipping Company.

Concert of Colors is a free, multicultural music festival that brings together artists and audiences from around the world.

Our affiliate, One Detroit speaks with Xiao D**g Wei in this video segment.

Xiao D**g Wei is a Detroit-based composer, musician and master of the erhu — the Chinese two-stringed violin. She will be headlining the next show in the Concert of Colors Neighborhood Programs series at the Detroit Shipping Company on Sept. 26.

09/17/2026

It's International Country Music Day!
We're temporarily changing our slogan to "We Are Country and Jazz".
Listen today for Wynton Marsalis' "Hootenanny," Peter Schickele's "Serenade for Three" which has a rowdy honky-tonk final movement and Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" (for flute).

09/16/2026

As fall approaches, "The Soundtrack" turns to one of Haley Taylor’s favorite jazz albums and the movie that inspired it. We’ll travel from the music of "Black Orpheus" where Antônio Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfá brought bossa nova to audiences around the world, to San Francisco, where a young Vince Guaraldi transformed those melodies into Jazz Impressions of "Black Orpheus". Along the way, discover how an ancient Greek myth became a Brazilian film, how its music found a second life in American jazz, and how an unexpected B-side called “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” helped set Guaraldi on the path to Charlie Brown. It’s a story about music being passed from one artist to another, and how a melody can keep changing long after the movie ends. Sunday at 6 p.m.

09/15/2026

We will bring you more of the tenor and soprano saxophone master, John Coltrane, on the next "Swing Set" celebrating his centennial birthday. Hear John Coltrane with Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson and Johnny Hartman. You'll also hear his legendary sessions as a leader for Atlantic, Impulse and Prestige Records. The "Swing Set" with Linda Yohn is 7 to 9 PM Sundays, on 90.9 WRCJ.

09/14/2026

Hear great classical music every weekday on 90.9 WRCJ:
"The Morning Drive" with Dave Wagner 5am-10am
"Midday Music" with Haley Taylor 10am-2pm
"The Drive Time Elixir" with Peter Whorf 2pm-6pm