Noted commentators Linda Wertheimer, Noah Adams, and Robert Seigel offer an in-depth presentation of the day's news from around the globe. Each week Garrison Keillor brings you the news from Lake Wobegon, as well as a variety of skits and talented musicians. Public radio's own jazz legend, pianist Marian McPartland, celebrates jazz greats this season on Piano Jazz. As host and artistic director of this Peabody Award-winning series for 21 years, McPartland has interviewed and performed with more musicians than anyone else in jazz. Individuality is a requirement of jazz.
Older artists have it, younger ones want it, and history is what happens in between.
JAZZ will air on KMOS-TV this month. Singer Nancy Wilson hosts this Gold Medal award-winning documentary series chronicling the people, places, and events in jazz. As an ongoing, weekly series, Jazz Profiles features topics that are varied and all-encompassing. The series focuses largely on individuals, especially the more senior artists who are still living and performing. Other topics include significant anniversaries of the dearly departed, the instruments of jazz, jazz cities, jazz families, and more.