Sarah Kerson
Sarah came to WBGO in 2018 after spending time at WNYC and WCBS 880 as a producer and news assistant. As a production assistant at WBGO, she works with Jazz Night in America and on other WBGO programming. She developed a love for music as an undergraduate at Barnard College, where she DJ'ed blues, country, soul, and hip-hop shows at WKCR. Sarah got her start in public radio as an intern in the Michigan Radio newsroom in her hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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In her decades behind the drum kit, 2021 NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington has become one of jazz's most dynamic musicians. In this episode, we'll hear music that captures her wide-ranging sound. -
This year, Turning the Tables focused on music's "founding mothers." Watch the season-opening concert at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, featuring Rhiannon Giddens, Lizz Wright and more.
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Drummer/producer Makaya McCraven creates beat-driven jazz with post-production wizardry. -
The "all-female" framework is both integral to the jazz supergroup Artemis and somehow beside the point.
