Tune in every weekday this Black History Month from noon to 1 p.m. Pacific.
*Note: All programs to air from noon to 1 p.m. Pacific. If you’re unable to catch a program live, each day’s program will be made available for on-demand listening the next day here.
Week 1
February 3
Black and Blue: Louis Armstrong and Civil Rights
Hosted by Will Friedwald with special guest Ricky Riccardi
February 4
Breaking Barriers: Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton
Hosted by Loren Schoenberg
February 5
Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit: Protest in Song
Hosted by Will Friedwald
February 6
Jump for Joy: Duke Ellington’s 1941 Musical Revue Part 1
Hosted by Ken Poston
February 7
Jump for Joy: Duke Ellington’s 1941 Musical Revue Part 2
Hosted by Ken Poston
Week 2
February 10
Black Brown and Beige: Duke Ellington’s Musical History of the African American Experience
Hosted by Loren Schoenberg
February 11
Norman Granz: Jazz for Justice
Hosted by Ken Poston
February 12
The Concert on Lincoln's Birthday: 1964's CORE Benefit at Carnegie Hall
Hosted by Claudia Russell
February 13
The House I Live In: Frank Sinatra and the Fight for Racial Equality
Hosted by Chuck Granata
February 14
Jazz Ambassadors: Jazz and Cultural Diplomacy
Hosted by Ken Poston
Week 3
February 17
The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck’s Civil Rights Era Musical
Hosted by Will Friedwald with special guest Ricky Riccardi
February 18
Nat King Cole: We Are Americans, Too
Hosted by Will Friedwald
February 19
Moanin’: The Jazz Cry for Freedom 1955-1963
Hosted by Ron Dhanifu and Matt Silver
February 20
We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite
Hosted by Kenny Washington
February 21
Compared to What: Anguish, Mourning, and Searching for Hope in the Late 1960s
Hosted by Larry Murry and Matt Silver
Week 4
February 24
Ella Fitzgerald’s Race Problem
Hosted by Will Friedwald
February 25
Jazz Exiles: The American Jazz Expatriates
Hosted by Loren Schoenberg
February 26
Fire Music
Archie Shepp and the Quest to Liberate America Aesthetically and Socially from its Inhumanity
Hosted by Chad Fox
February 27
Message to Our Folks
The Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians
Hosted by Neil Tesser
February 28
Let Freedom Ring
Mourning MLK and Jazz’s Relationship to The Movement after King’s Assassination
Hosted by TBA
