CUNY Podcasts

Jazz pianist and composer Fred Hersch, hailed by Downbeat as “one of the small handful of brilliant musicians of his generation,” has been living with AIDS since the early 1990s, and during the same time has recorded a portfolio of work the New York Times calls a “manifesto of contemporary jaz...

Jazz master Ron Carter gained national recognition in the 1960s as a member of the Miles Davis quintet. But it’s the breadth of his work " with scores of top artists " and his appearances on over 2,500 albums that have made him one of the most-recorded bass players in history. Some writers only as...

The arrival of jazz in the early 1920s not only challenged traditional musical tastes, but also was a powerful cultural force that brought African-American, Jewish and working-class culture into the white Protestant mainstream, according to David Savran, author of Highbrow/Lowdown: Theatre, Jazz and...