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The KUSP Mobile Broadcast Studio (aka The Sturgeon) on location behind the Jimmy Lyons stage, with some of the KUSP crew.

KUSP has produced hundreds of interviews with MJF musicians over the many years of its festival coverage.

All broadcasts are hosted by veteran KUSP programmers, with exclusive interviews of artists at MJF.

KUSP Broadcasts from MJF:
Radio broadcast only *

Friday Night, Sept. 16
8:30 p.m. Berklee Flamenco (live performance - recorded at Kennedy Center)
9:50 p.m. John Pizzarelli Quartet with special guests Jessica Molaskey & Bucky Pizzarelli
11:10 p.m. Cubano Be! Cubano Bop! A Tribute to Chano Pozo & Dizzy Gillespie - Poncho Sanchez & his Latin Jazz Band featuring Terence Blanchard

Saturday Afternoon, Sept. 17
1:00 p.m. An Afternoon in Treme: The Musical Majesty of New Orleans with Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Soul Rebels Brass Band, Kermit Ruffins & Glen David Andrews, with special guest MC - Wendell Pierce
3:00 p.m. Soulsville: Huey Lewis & The News

Saturday Night, Sept. 17
8:00 p.m. Geri Allen & Timeline: The Dazzle, A Jazz Tap Tribute to Sammy Davis Jr.
9:20 p.m. "James Farm" featuring Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman & Eric Harland
10:50 p.m. Herbie Hancock

Sunday Afternoon, Sept. 18
12:30 p.m. Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Big Band
1:10 p.m. Next Generation Jazz Orchestra with special guests Joshua Redman (artist in residence), Benny Green & Donny McCaslin
2:45 p.m. Open Door: India.Arie & Idan Raichel

Sunday Night, Sept. 18
7:00 p.m. Miles Davis/Gil Evans: Still Ahead Orchestra - Music from Miles Ahead, Porgy & Bess, and Sketches of Spain - directed by Vince Mendoza with Terence Blanchard, Peter Erskine & Miles Evans
9:00 p.m. Donny McCaslin Group (delayed from Saturday night)


Note: Broadcast schedules & performers subject to change without advance notice.

* KUSP does not have approval for streaming or archiving concert material. All performances are only available via live radio broadcast.