I’m Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. DuBose Heyward helped shape one of the most iconic works in American musical history ...

Behind every legendary performance, groundbreaking recording, and thriving jazz scene, there’s often an unsung hero: the jazz ...

At 92 years old, Ed Love is still on the air. The jazz radio afficionado has hosted “Destination Jazz: The Ed Love Program” on WDET since 1983 and worked in the radio industry for years before that.

It’s easy to speak in superlatives when discussing The Jazz Groove. It's my daily companion, the music station I go to first, last and always —Bill Thompson, Listener The Jazz Groove is a relatively ...

Stacks of jazz CD’s surround radio host Bob Naujoks records his second to last show “Gentle Jazz with Bob Naujoks” at KCCK Radio at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Wednesday, June ...

KMHD Jazz Radio is celebrating its 40th year on the air this month. KMHD is the top-rated jazz station in the nation at a time when full-time jazz radio stations are rare. It has been a staple of the ...

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 ...

A new Berlin-based radio station named after jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald is aiming to revive the genres fortunes. As the music used to be an expression of rebellion, emancipation and social protest, ...

“There’s just two kinds of music,” radio on-air personality Ed Love says. “Good Jazz and bad jazz.” Credit: Courtesy of WDET As Ed Love reflects on four decades at WDET-FM 101.9, he declared during a ...

KCCK Jazz Radio 88.3 DJ Hollis Monroe introduces the next song during his show “Midday Jazz with Hollis Monroe” at the radio station’s studio at Kirkwood Community College in southwest Cedar Rapids, ...

Editor’s note: The article is updated with additional information about jazz radio station WDCB. Ever since musicians like Louis Armstrong, King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton were playing at nightclubs ...