Colson Whitehead’s fiction often pulses with the spirit of jazz, shaping both rhythm and structure in his narratives.

What's in a name? Or, more to the point, what's on a station named for a type of music when that music goes away? There's no longer any jazz on KJZZ. Not on its traditional radio broadcast, at least.

At 92 years old, Ed Love is still on the air. The jazz radio afficionado has hosted “Destination Jazz: The Ed Love Program” on WDET since 1983 and worked in the radio industry for years before that.

Throughout American literature, jazz has been a storytelling tool. Writers like Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison didn’t merely write about jazz — they wrote with it.

Stacks of jazz CD’s surround radio host Bob Naujoks records his second to last show “Gentle Jazz with Bob Naujoks” at KCCK Radio at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Wednesday, June ...