Friday Night Jazz
Fridays, 8-11 p.m.
Trumpeter, percussionist, composer, arranger and educator Ray Vega hosts three hours of jazz. For Ray, jazz "is a celebration of life!"
If you miss the show or just want to hear it again, you have two weeks to enjoy the show with the Replay stream!
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Latest Episodes
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Join Reuben Jackson, host of Friday Night Jazz for a performance by vocalist Audrey Bernstein recorded live in the VPR Performance Studio. Bernstein and鈥� -
Trumpeter-flugelhornist Ray Vega is my guest on Friday Night Jazz this Friday, July 25 at 8 p.m.Vega is a veteran of seminal Latin Jazz ensembles led by鈥� -
You can now listen to My Place with Joel Najman, All The Traditions with Robert Resnik and Friday Night Jazz with Ray Vega online in the VPR Replay鈥� -
Join Reuben Jackson tonight for an exclusive conversation with Rickie Lee Jones. She stopped by our studios Thursday on her way to the Northeast Kingdom鈥� -
Friday, August 30th, 2013, 8p.m. It's hard to believe it, but Friday Night Jazz with Reuben Jackson turns one next week! To celebrate, you'll hear a live鈥� -
"O summer, summer, summertime." - Robert HaydenEach season has its own music - its own powerful singularity. And we as individuals often alternately revel鈥� -
Sunday June 9, 2013A sleeping bandstandI miss the crowds alreadyJazzy souveniers.----------------------------Saturday June 8, 2013A student asked ifI had鈥� -
Duke Ellington was the composer of American jazz standards such as Mood Indigo, sumptuous extended works like The Afro Eurasian Eclipse, The Far East鈥� -
Clark Terry is a versatile and swinging 93 year-old trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer and bandleader whose resume includes stints with Quincy Jones,鈥� -
Tonight we continue our survey of Big Band Jazz (and jazz-related ensembles)in the first hour, then continue with new releases by Jason Marsalis, Mark鈥�
