Jazz Night in America
Fridays at 9 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m.
Jazz Night in America is your guide to the most inspiring performances, artists, and stories in jazz today. Hosted by Grammy Award-winning musician Christian McBride, Jazz Night in America serves as a multi-platform radio, video documentary, and concert presentation series. Jazz Night in America radio is where great music meets great stories. From WBGO and Jazz at Lincoln Center and distributed by NPR.
Latest Episodes
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Join us to watch jazz vocalist and songwriter Jazzmeia Horn give her last in-person concert before the pandemic shuttered music venues in March 2020.
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The New York Police Department kept musicians of color from the stage for almost three decades by revoking their cabaret cards, a license required to perform for pay in nightclubs.
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Jon Batiste was born for show business. Hear him play an intimate set in New York and on our radio show as we trace his story to his current gig as band leader of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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For Jazz Night in America's Alone Together Duets series, harpist Brandee Younger and bassist Dezron Douglas perform "Toilet Paper Romance" from their living room in East Harlem, N.Y.
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Musical couple José James and Taali perform the song "I Found A Love" while quarantined in their New York City apartment, in the first of a new series of videos from Jazz Night in America.
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Members of Brass-a-Holics and Mecca Notes pay tribute to lives lost to COVID-19 with a performance of "I'll Fly Away."
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Hear highlights from a show with the Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour featuring Christian Sands, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Bria Skonberg, Melissa Aldana, Yasushi Nakamura and Jamison Ross.
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Béla Fleck, the world's preeminent banjo player, and Edmar Castañeda, a peerless master of the Andean harp, perform as a duo for the first time at the Big Ears Festival in March 2019.
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To ring in the season, Jazz Night in America brings you Big Band Holidays, a concert featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
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A modern jazz survey at ground level, from stone classics to state-of-the-art jams.