Jazz bassist, composer and educator Ray Drummond died on November 1, 2025 at the age of 78. Drummond can be heard on hundreds ...

Performing his signature blend of R&B, jazz, and rock, Bilal made a quick stop at KNKX for a spiritual and heartfelt studio ...

Tacoma-based jazz and blues radio station KNKX is getting $225,000 to bolster its jazz music programming. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced Jan. 28 that it’s providing $1.3 million to ...

88.5 KNKX/Seattle-Tacoma, WA, has hired Northwest Jazz radio veteran Carol Handley as its new Director of Music Programming, starting August 20. Handley comes to KNKX with decades of music programming ...

“He broke every rule in radio, but during the fund drive, the phones went off the hook,” says KNKX general manager Joey Cohn of DJ Ken Wiley, whose eccentric, beloved, 41-year-old Sunday afternoon ...

The Northwest jazz scene is enhanced by some of the finest high school bands in the country, including Garfield and Roosevelt who are perennial finalists in the national Essentially Ellington ...

Employees at Washington public radio station KNKX are navigating the ups and downs of freedom from university ownership a year after their successful campaign to buy their independence. But after they ...

Steve Williams was shocked when he saw the results of a market study of his station, WBGO in Newark, N.J. “Our awareness level was below 50%,” said Williams, president since 2020. “When you consider ...