Jazz pianist Jason Moran started out in Houston playing classical music, but found his way to jazz through Thelonious Monk. We’ll learn more about his adventures in the NYC jazz scene. Then a conversation and tour around the piano with Philadelphia cabaret player and creator Heath Allen, plus music from Fats Waller, Jerry Lee Lewis, Herbie Hancock, and Sweet Emma.
The historian of the Black Atlantic and Professor of African and African-American Art History Robert Farris Thompson of Yale University died on November 28 at age 88.
You can hear our interview with him here
To read more about his life, click here
Photo: Matthew Sussman/Yale University
