Josephine Reed

We celebrating Jazz Appreciation month with an in-depth conversation with composer and jazz musician Terence Blanchard.  Terence Blanchard has a long list of exceptional jazz credentials, but he’s most recently found acclaim as the first Black composer to compose an opera presented by the Metropolitan Opera. In this podcast, he discusses how he came to write the opera (which … [Read more...] about Meet Musician and Composer Terence Blanchard

Cassandra Wilson is a singer, songwriter, musician and now an 2022 NEA Jazz Master. In this tuneful podcast, the Grammy Award winner takes us through her career in music, her influences, her approach to singing, how she works with other musicians, her ideas about song-writing,  and the centrality of the Blues and Mississippi’s rich musical heritage to her work. Wilson is as … [Read more...] about Meet 2022 NEA Jazz Master Cassandra Wilson

Photojournalist Lynsey Addario has been making news herself lately: she recently took what many consider to be a war defining photograph--that of a church worker, a mother and her children killed by a mortar as they tried to flee the Russian bombardment outside Kyiv. It’s a photograph that resonated around the world, showing clearly the cost civilians are paying for the war in … [Read more...] about Photojournalist Lynsey Addario on showing the face of war

Violist, Co-founder and Artistic/Executive Director of Castle of our Skins Violist Ashleigh Gordon is the co-founder and artistic/executive director of Castle of our Skins—a music initiative in Boston that celebrates Black artistry in music. Violist Ashleigh Gordon and pianist Anthony R. Green were students at the New England Conservatory of Music and were frustrated by the … [Read more...] about Ashleigh Gordon