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The month of CKUAnniversaries continues! Grant Stovel just celebrated 17 years at CKUA, and Tony King will mark 16 years on March 31.

In the late 1970s, music students at UNC School of the Arts let it be known to the powers-that-be that they wanted to learn more about jazz.

In the process of preserving the station's musical legacy, retired jazz producer Becca Pulliam is rediscovering her own body of work.

Theory is the thing here, this is a study of theories. It does gesture at practices, but in ways that show how thinking and writing about improvisation are so beholden to theory that the book is full of claims that sound like they are being made by an alien, sent to study the human race and report back on the marvelous, intriguing strangeness of all these creatures.

Films about Joan Baez and Max Roach catch film critic Harlan Jacobson's eye at 2023 SXSW in Austin, Texas

Musicians often make their mark young, which makes sense given the energy and determination required to do so. They then must transform that early gift through the course of a life in order to sustain a career.

On Feb. 3, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater arrives in Toronto as a beloved institution

Canadian Folk Music Awards Nominee Alex Krawczyk Announces New Single “Rhythm of the Road”

Violinist Diane Monroe is known as a "bona fide Philadelphia jazz treasure" - but she's had a huge career spanning styles and audiences.

Since its creation in 1960, Ailey’s masterpiece "Revelations” has been seen by more people around the world than any other modern dance work.