WRTI is proud to announce the launch of Dangerous Sounds, an eight-episode podcast series on WRTI.org. Based on the award-winning Danish podcast Dangerous Tones—The Story of Danish Jazz, Dangerous ...
Nicole Sweeney brings her signature storytelling and soulful presence to Evening Jazz at WRTI, connecting Philly listeners to jazz’s rich legacy. WRTI’s ''Evening Jazz'' host Nicole Sweeney on the mic ...
Harrison wore many hats as a jazz scholar, historian, and educator. He has been described by many as a 'musicologist' and his life-long dedication to what he called 'The Positive Music' made Harrison ...
Jazz radio host and South Philadelphia native Bob Perkins, a mainstay on Temple University's public WRTI-FM station, plans to significantly scale back his hours this summer. Perkins, 88, has been at ...
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The future of Philly music stations WRTI and WXPN is unclear as Republicans defund NPR and PBS
Big Bird and Elmo are what many people associate with NPR and PBS, with Terry Gross and some politics sprinkled in somewhere. But among the outlets threatened by Republicans voting to fully defund the ...
Meg Bragle had to have been the busiest person in the Delaware Valley during the last few weeks. The 2 to 6 p.m. classical music host on WRTI (90.1 FM) did not miss a minute of any of her broadcasts ...
It's Friday, which means dozens of new albums hit streaming services in the middle of last night. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomes Nate Chinen of Philadelphia's WRTI to New Music Friday to ...
For nearly six decades, Philadelphia has been a unique voice in jazz music. Bob Perkin’s, a legendary DJ at the radio station WRTI, spun everything from Duke Ellington to Miles Davis. Over the years, ...
For Bob Perkins, making music was making magic. “That’s what a musician does, to me. When he or she stands up and takes a solo,” he said in 2020. “And it’s all coming out and improvised from the mind ...
Bliss Michelson was a classical music host for WRTI radio in Philadelphia. More than 610,000 Americans and counting have died from COVID-19. Each week ABC News has been chronicling the stories of ...
The pianist Les McCann, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 88, was known for his song "Compared to What." But he had a long and celebrated expansive career that preceded — and followed — that hit. Not ...
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