With Jazz Night, WBGO and NPR Music will take fans into venues to listen, watch and chat

When Dave King, drummer for the experimental jazz ensemble The Bad Plus, brought his modern jazz trio to New York this month, NPR Music and WBGO produced a live video and audio stream of their Sept. 11 performance. The Live at the Village Vanguard session is a model for the forthcoming web-original series Jazz Night in America. (Photo: John Rogers/WBGO) - See more at: http://www.current.org/2013/09/with-jazz-night-wbgo-and-npr-music-will-take-fans-into-venues-to-listen-watch-and-chat/#sthash.w12zqJlS.dpuf

Published on Current.org, September 23, 2013
By Mike Janssen
NPR and WBGO-FM in Newark, N.J., are teaming up to produce Jazz Night in America, a series of radio broadcasts paired with live, high-quality video webcasts of jazz performances from venues across the country.

The series will debut in April 2014, said Anya Grundmann, e.p. of NPR Music, who discussed the project with jazz programmers during a Sept. 18 conference session at the PRPD conference. Videos will stream on NPR’s and WBGO’s websites, and stations will be able to install a video player platform on their own sites to present the webcasts with their stations’ brands prominently displayed.

The series will mark the most prominent visual presentation of live jazz performance in U.S. broadcasting since CBS presented concerts in the 1950s, said Josh Jackson, v.p. of content at WBGO. It would also be public radio’s first regular video series, Grundmann said.

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