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“Jazz Night in America” Announces Season Two Highlights

Videos and radio show will feature Wayne Shorter, Arturo O’Farrill, Snarky Puppy, more

By JazzTimes

Jazz Night in America will return for its second season of videos and a weekly radio program on September 24. Episodes are available Thursdays at Jazznight and from public radio stations around the country.

The season opens with coverage of Wayne Shorter’s career-spanning performance as the featured soloist with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. According to a press release, in this episode of the weekly radio show and a companion video documentary, Jazz Night in America “visits the home of the jazz composer and saxophonist to capture his trailblazing career and his musical (and extra-musical) ideas.”

The multi-platform program, produced by NPR Music, WBGO and Jazz at Lincoln Center, will introduce two new video elements this fall. According to the release, “Biweekly, half-hour concert documentaries take viewers behind the scenes of the performances featured on the radio show that week. Throughout the season, special video shorts will capture important moments in jazz, including the 90th birthday of George Wein, creator of the Newport Jazz Festival.” In addition, Christian McBride, host of Jazz Night in America, will continue his monthly jazz segments on All Things Considered, NPR’s flagship program airing on more than 700 stations in the U.S.

Jazz Night in America Season Two Schedule:

September 24, 2015: Wayne Shorter’s career-spanning performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center

October 1, 2015: George Wein 90th birthday interview special with recordings from his Newport Jazz Festival

October 8, 2015: Jason Moran and The Big Bandwagon tribute to Thelonius Monk at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

October 15, 2015: TBA

October 22, 2015: Arturo O'Farrill brings together American and Cuban musicians in a tribute to Afro-Cuban music during a performance from The Conversation Continued at Symphony Space in New York

October 29, 2015: TBA

November 5, 2015: Thelonious Monk Competition-winning Trumpeter Marquis Hill performs with his band the Blacktet at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago

November 12, 2015: TBA
November 19, 2015: Pat Mallinger, Cameron Pfiffner and the Sabertooth Organ Quartet at Chicago’s Green Mill club, where they perform every Saturday from Midnight to 5 a.m.

November 26, 2015: TBA

December 3, 2015: Keyboardist and composer Wayne Horvitz at the Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle

December 10, 2015: TBA

December 17, 2015: The young, driven artists of Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center

* Descriptions of each episode will be updated in the NPR Press Room at NPR.org.

In this new season, Jazz Night in America will bring audiences music and behind-the-scenes stories from the D.C. Jazz Fest and the Panama Jazz Festival, visit funk band Snarky Puppy in the group’s hometown of Dallas,and join McBride in his hometown of Philadelphia.

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