Saxophonists Lou Donaldson and organist Jack McDuff, both born in 1926, championed memorable melodies and grooves rooted in ...

June 18, 2025 • Jazz House Kids trains the next generation of jazz stars — alums include Isaiah J. Thompson and Immanuel ...

Feb. 24-27: For as long as his devoted listeners can remember, the irrepressible alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson has found a comfort zone in a tidy small group with an electric organ at its core.

Jazz Night In America is a public radio program, a video concert documentary series, and an online home for the music, from NPR Music and WBGO.

Jazz master Lou Donaldson was originally scheduled to kick off the 2010 season of A Place for Jazz, but he fell ill the day before and had to cancel his performance. Many Nippertown jazz fans feared ...

Lou Donaldson has been around for decades and crafted a career that has gone from bebop to funk and back again. He's 83 years of age, tells humorous tales, cracks himself up, sings with a sly sense of ...

In 1926, as the Harlem Renaissance surged and the music was transforming American culture, a generation of musicians who would lead jazz into its next golden age was born. In a previous version of ...