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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For this year's jazz appreciation month, NPR's Jazz Night in America wants to hear from you! Let us know what role jazz plays in your life. -
Guitar heroes Mike and Leni Stern offer copious amounts of joy and West African vibes from their Manhattan apartment. -
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn perform a duet from their home in Nashville. -
Over the past year, we caught up with jazz couples to get a behind-the-curtain look at life during quarantine, alone together. -
Jazz Night visits the St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church, an evolving house of worship that has incorporated John Coltrane's A Love Supreme album as their chief liturgical text.
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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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Grammy-winning trumpeter Keyon Harrold performs "Ethereal Souls" for Jazz Night In America's tribute to the jazz musicians we lost in 2020.
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How is the Philadelphia jazz community responding to the global pandemic? Pianist Orrin Evans and other musicians are taking on the challenge.
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Performances and speeches honor this year's NEA Jazz Masters award recipients, including Dorthaan Kirk, Roscoe Mitchell, Reggie Workman and Bobby McFerrin. Watch on Thursday, Aug. 20 at 8 p.m. ET.
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For musicians who want to play together while following social distancing guidelines, the solution goes beyond a Zoom call. Pianist Dan Tepfer leads us down the technological rabbit hole.
