Robin Lloyd
Originally from Detroit, Robin has presented jazz, blues and Latin jazz on public radio for nearly 40 years. A member of the Jazz Education Network and the Jazz Journalists Association, she retired from KNKX in 2023.
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KNKX jazz host and music writer Robin Lloyd announces her retirement, and looks back on nearly 24 years of music, stories and events. -
Now in its 40th year, the annual NEA Jazz Masters concert and celebration returns to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. -
Bill Ramsay's life in jazz will be honored by Kareem Kandi's World Orchestra and others on April 2 at the Spanish Ballroom in Tacoma. -
Seattle's Earshot Jazz organization does more than produce a stellar annual jazz festival featuring internationally renowned artists. It also celebrates the local jazz scene with its Golden Ear Awards. -
Defying the norms of her time, Lucille Dixon played a "man's instrument," the contrabass, led her own jazz band and managed New York City's first racially integrated symphony orchestra. -
Jazz icon Dexter Gordon was born Feb. 27, 1923. DEX100, the Dexter Gordon Centennial Project, is a year-long celebration of the saxophonist and his work. -
Music from New Orleans-raised or New Orleans-influenced musicians parades through KNKX's Midday and Evening Jazz on Tuesday. Laissez le bon temps rouler! -
Jazz at Lincoln Center's annual Essentially Ellington high school jazz band competition announced its 15 finalists for 2023. Washington is once again well-represented with Bothell High School, Roosevelt High School and Garfield High School among the finalists. -
This February, in celebration of Black History Month, KNKX will air five one-hour specials telling the stories of African American jazz and blues artists and their most influential recordings. -
The largest national prize dedicated to individual performing artists has grown even bigger through this year's Doris Duke Foundation Artists Awards.
