Music Video

We were thrilled to welcome back this week singer/saxophonist Curtis Stigers. The last time Curtis visited the KPLU Performance Studio, he had just…

Though this was not guitarist John Scofield's first stop into the KNKX Studios this time he was joined John Medeski, Billy Martin, and Chris Wood.

Over the past several years, solo jazz guitarist, Martin Taylor, has basically become one of the gang here at KPLU. He’s such good company and such a…

When he began his recording career, and for some time thereafter, saxophonist, Anton Schwartz made his home in San Francisco.Now, though, he splits his…

Cecile McLorin Salvant is one of the best young jazz singers to appear on the scene in years. She’s the prefect combination of what many think a great…

OK, maybe "anarchist" is too harsh a word to apply to singer/songwriter/pianist/ukulele player, Nellie McKay, but as you will hear in this interview,…

Forty years ago, a band called Eleventh House helped set the standard for what would become known as Jazz-Rock Fusion. The band consisted of Larry Coryell…

Pianist/singer Marcia Ball is one of the best-known players of Louisiana blues, swamp blues and boogie-woogie. While in town for a show at Jazz Alley, we…

“’Nuff said,” is right. When jazz fans hear the names Monty Alexander, John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton in conjunction, they know they’ll be treated great…

During the 1960s there was a golden age of soul music in America. Some of the greatest songs from that era came from the Stax Recording Studio in Memphis,…