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Call Letters: WBGO
Frequency: 88.3
http://wbgo.org
https://www.wbgo.org/studios
Affiliations: NPR

WBGO is a publicly-supported cultural institution that champions jazz and presents news to a worldwide audience through radio, other technologies and events.

Series

Living With Music

6 Pieces

WBGO presents Living With Music, a show about music, discovery, and music discovery. Hosted by WBGO Special Projects Producer Josh Jackson.

From: WBGO
Updated: Mar 10, 2009

The Checkout with Simon Rentner

27 Pieces

New Jazz in New York City

From: WBGO
Updated: Dec 31, 2014

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Camila Meza / Gretchen Parlato / Katie Thiroux

From: WBGO
Series: The Checkout with Simon Rentner

Caption: Gretchen Parlato, Credit: Jean Baptiste Millot

Gretchen Parlato says she's born to sing. The American proves it in concert at New York's Winter Jazz Festival at Le Poisson Rouge, by giving us h...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting

Added: Feb 11, 2015
Length: 58:57
Purchases: 1

Randy Ingram / Oran Etkin / Steve Lehman

From: WBGO
Series: The Checkout with Simon Rentner

Steve Lehman explains his "Mise en Abime." Whatever new direction he takes on his saxophone or in his writing, he somehow always ends up right wher...

Added: Jan 26, 2015
Length: 58:57

Julian Lage & Nels Cline / Revive Big Band with Igmar Thomas

From: WBGO
Series: The Checkout with Simon Rentner

From swing cats to b-boys, the Revive Big Band isn’t your ordinary jazz orchestra. Igmar Thomas is its musical director, whose mission is to not o...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and Oregon Public Broadcasting

Added: Jan 21, 2015
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 2

Guillermo Klein / Uri Gurvich / Warren Wolf (Best of Checkout Live at Berklee)

From: WBGO
Series: The Checkout with Simon Rentner

Guillermo Klein is a pianist and composer from Argentina. Warren Wolf is a vibraphonist from Baltimore, Maryland. And Uri Gurvich is a saxophonis...

Added: Jan 15, 2015
Length: 58:58

Terrance Blanchard & Fabian Almazan / Theo Croker & Dee Dee Bridgewater / Holophonor

From: WBGO
Series: The Checkout with Simon Rentner

Seven students entered the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA as strangers. They left as lifelong friends. They’ve joined for...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting and 90.5 WSNC

Added: Jan 15, 2015
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 2

Aaron Goldberg's The Now / Marquis Hill's Modern Flows

From: WBGO
Series: The Checkout with Simon Rentner

Marquis Hill is a winner of the Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz competition. We congratulate the trumpeter on his victory, plus brin...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting and 90.5 WSNC

Added: Jan 13, 2015
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 2

Robert Glasper with Jason Moran, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Caravan Palace

From: WBGO
Series: The Checkout with Simon Rentner

Robert Glasper and Jason Moran pair-up for a rare interview and performance, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble recorded live, and the electro-swing of France...

Added: Aug 07, 2014
Length: 58:59

Fred Ho, Flame Collective, Ethiopique Jazz

From: WBGO
Series: The Checkout with Simon Rentner

A remembrance of revolutionary saxophonist Fred Ho, a studio session with Rio de Jainero's Flame Collective, and an exploration of jazz from Ethiopia.

Added: Aug 07, 2014
Length: 59:00

Singers! Cecile McLorin Salvant, Zara McFarlane, John Hollenbeck

From: WBGO
Series: The Checkout with Simon Rentner

Singers! Cecile McLorin Salvant's auspicious recording debut "WomanChild," UK's Zara McFarlane rite of passage as an artist, and drummer Theo Bleck...

Added: Aug 07, 2014
Length: 58:59

Vijay Iyer, Rudy Royston, Pete Robbins

From: WBGO
Series: The Checkout with Simon Rentner

Vijay Iyer's recording "Mutations" and the state of the recording industry, Rudy Royston channel's Denver, Colorado with his album "303," and Pete ...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting