Jazz is a quintessentially American art form, but one that, as pianist Bill Evans once put it, “is not a what; it’s a how.”

Many musicians around the world have heard this in the music and embraced the ways and instruments of jazz to re-interpret musical traditions and tell personal stories.

You can hear their music on Jazz With an Accent ® on WDNA, 88.9 FM, Miami, Thursdays at 7 p.m., beginning tomorrow, July 4th.

Check https://wdna.org/ and listen wherever you are: https://wdna.org/how-to-listen/

Our first program will be a sampler of sorts, including music by South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim, Cuban pianist Omar Sosa, Senegalese kora master Seckou Keita, Peruvian trumpeter Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet, and the Austrian Vienna Art Orchestra.

In the following weeks, we will spotlight the sounds of big bands, and indigenous musical traditions re-imagined, we’ll explore electric and acoustic fusions, vocal music, the Great American Songbook reinterpreted, and wherever else the music will take us.

Join us. There is a world of jazz to discover.