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01/27/2025

Trump tried unsuccessfully on at least four occasions to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting during his first term and now, together with Musk, is on a mission to succeed this time. If CPB is defunded we are quite likely to lose many NPR and PBS stations such as WQLN.

Christiane Amanpour has spent four decades as a celebrated journalist and war reporter. With disinformation rampaging through the media, she talks to Tim Adams about the threat of technocracy, Donald Trump’s second term – and why facts are more important than ever

12/16/2024

Ballet with music by Ellington and Strayhorn. Nice wat to spend a rainy afternoon in Pittsburgh.

12/16/2024

Hussain's career spanned over five decades, during which he was revered as both a national treasure in India and admired worldwide.

12/10/2023

Lakecia Benjamin.

10/26/2022

When this scrim lifts, we will experience August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington ((Denzel's son) are among the cast members. The play takes place in Pittsburgh's Hill district, 1936.

09/23/2022

On my walk late afternoon I gathered some foliage. A hawk flew overhead and a wild turkey ducked into the brush. Autumn equinox begins. Break out the sweaters and pumpkins. Post season baseball on deck and all rise for Aaron Judge.

09/07/2022

Immanuel Wilkins at Brooklyn's Bar Bayeux, an intimate listening room.

This song was recorded during a live stream in the Wednesday Jazz Series at Bar Bayeux, Brooklyn. Please support us by giving us a donation so we can keep th...

08/27/2022

Miles. Soon to be featured on JazzFlight on WQLN NPR.

"What It Is" was recorded in Montreal on July 7, 1983.

08/25/2022

this is so shocking - major loss

jaimie branch, an experimental jazz trumpeter who fused brought a punk mentality to the free jazz tradition, has passed away.

08/14/2022

For jazz guitar nerds - very worthwhile!

Julian, Miles and Mary go deep down the rabbit hole in a conversation about electric guitars, jazz theory and history with our Artist Relations guru Chris Be...

08/07/2022

Koln 75 is in pre-production. It may shed new light on Keith Jarrett's magnificent Koln Concert.

Köln 75: Directed by Ido Fluk. With John Magaro, Jördis Triebel, Alexander Scheer, Mala Emde. Vera Brandes, who, in 1975 and at the age of 17, staged the famous Köln Concert by jazz musician Keith Jarrett.