This week on the MCG Jazz Spotlight Radio Hour, Marty Ashby and MCG Jazz staff member, Natalie Larsen, talk about the spread of jazz around the globe.

Hear music from incredible jazz artists from Cuba, Canada, Israel, Japan, Poland, South Africa, France and more. Original works and reworking of standard with the likes of such as Avishai Cohen, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Django Reinhardt, Michal Urbaniak, Abdullah Ibrahim, Machito and others who have mixed their native culture’s musical traditions with jazz to create something new and further the evolution of jazz.

The MCG Jazz Spotlight show airs on Friday and Sunday at 6pm and Saturday at 1pm on The Pittsburgh Jazz Channel WZUM.