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Embed DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead says COVID-era isolationism has produced a bumper crop of solo records from jazz instrumentalists. These include two very different new albums by two outstanding tenor saxophonists - J.D. Allen caught in the studio and Jon Irabagon recorded in the wild. He starts with J.D. Allen. (SOUNDBITE OF J.D. ALLEN'S "THESE FOOLISH THINGS") KEVIN WHITEHEAD, BYLINE: Tenor saxophonist J.D. Allen giving "These Foolish Things" the gravitas of "Old Man River." It's from Allen's solo CD "Queen City," the nickname for Cincinnati, whe...

Editorial  By Sigrid Weidenweber Let me begin with an observation, repeatedly made throughout over sixty years: the most inveterate, fervent racists are

Links This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.Donate Nearly 80 years ago, Richard Wright became one of the most famous Black writers in the United States with the publication of “Native Son.” The novel’s searing critique of systemic racism made it a best-seller and inspired a generation of Black writers. In 1941, Wright wrote a new novel titled “The Man Who Lived Underground,” but publishers refused to release it, in part because the book was filled with graphic descriptions of police brutality by white officers against a Black man. His manuscript was largely forgot...

Links This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.Donate Nearly 80 years ago, Richard Wright became one of the most famous Black writers in the United States with the publication of “Native Son,” a novel whose searing critique of systemic racism made it a best-seller and inspired a generation of Black writers. In 1941, Wright wrote a new novel titled “The Man Who Lived Underground,” but publishers refused to release it, in part because the book was filled with graphic descriptions of police brutality by white officers against a Black man. His manuscript was largely forgot...

Stupa ceremony in Loei 2 The Dan Sai Municipality will organise a celebration to worship Phrathat Sri Song Rak in Loei's Dan Sai district from tomorrow to Monday. The annual event is organised on the Full Moon day of the sixth lunar month. The date falls on Monday this year. Located on a hill by the bank of Man River, Phrathat Sri Song Rak is one of the highly revered stupas in the Northeast. The history dates back to the year 1560 when the white stupa was built to indicate the goodwill between Maha Chakkraphat of Ayutthaya and King Chai Chetthathirath of Lan Xang (now part of Laos).