Thursday, December 3 @ 6:00 pm
58 W 129th Street - National Jazz Museum in Harlem
Organized and moderated by WRTI’s editorial director Nate Chinen, The Year in Jazz is a panel discussion about the music, the artists, and the moments that shaped jazz in 2023. Joining the panel this year will be writer, podcaster, DJ and producer Angélika Beener and award winning and GRAMMY nominated writer Adam Shatz.
Join us after the program for a holiday gathering featuring light refreshments and live music.
Angélika Beener is a music lover whose devotion to the arts is expressed through a distinctive synthesis of musicology, DJ performance, award winning editorial and media production. She is weekend host on SiriusXM’s Real Jazz. She is also the producer and host of Milestones: Celebrating the Culture, in partnership with WBGO.
Angélika’s writing had been featured in TIDAL, Downbeat, NPR Music, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Huffington Post, and The New York Times (5 Minutes That Will Make You Love series). She has contributed liner notes, essays, and biographies to acclaimed recording projects, including several GRAMMY®-winning and nominated albums. A journalist who writes about music and culture at the intersections of race, gender, and generation, her work in public radio has been recognized by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and The New York Association of Black Journalists.
She has been a guest speaker at Berklee College of Music, UPENN, The Juilliard School, and The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, sharing her knowledge and experiences with the next generation of artists.
Angélika was Consulting Producer for the award-winning 2019 documentary, Digging for Weldon Irvine. In 2025, Angélika produced a one-hour documentary titled Strata-East: The Legacy Begins. Angélika is a consistently active DJ, playing for The Met, New York Historical, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Doris Duke Foundation, Next Jazz Legacy, and City Parks Foundation SummerStage. This year, Angélika had the distinguished honor of DJing the official GRAMMY® afterparty at The GRAMMY Museum.
Angélika is a New York City native and super proud mom.
Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books, and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His book The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon won the American Library in Paris’s prize for best book on a French subject in 2024. He is also the author of Rebels and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination and editor of Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing about Zionism and Israel. His liner notes for Anouar Brahem’s album After the Last Sky were nominated for a Grammy Award in 2025. In 2022 he was designated a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture. In June 2027, Farrar Straus & Giroux will be publishing his book about the Black musical avant-garde since Coltrane, In Search of a Sound: Dreams of a New Black Music.
Nate Chinen is a music critic, commentator and educator with a foundation in improvised music. A longtime music critic for The New York Times, he is the author of Playing Changes: Jazz For the New Century, which GQ and NPR recognized as one of the Best Books of 2018; and co-author of Myself Among Others: A Life in Music, the autobiography of festival impresario George Wein, which the Jazz Journalists Association honored as the Best Book About Jazz in 2004.
Chinen is a thirteen-time winner of the Helen Dance–Robert Palmer Award for Excellence in Writing, also awarded by the JJA. The same organization has twice honored his Substack publication, The Gig, as Blog of the Year.
As Editorial Director at WRTI, Chinen coordinates coverage of jazz and classical music in the Philadelphia area, and contributes regularly to NPR. He is co-creator and co-host of The Late Set, which won a 2026 Signal Award for Best Interview or Talk Show. His previous podcast, Jazz United, won the JJA Award for Best Podcast in each of the years it was eligible.
Chinen began his career as a journalist in 1996, at the Philadelphia City Paper. In addition to NPR and The New York Times, he has covered music for The Village Voice, Vibe, and JazzTimes, where he authored a long-running monthly column. He has taught courses in jazz history and culture at New York University. He created and still teaches a podcasting workshop at the University of Pennsylvania.
We are your go-to venue for off-site meetings, receptions, film screenings, workshops, networking events, socials and more. Located in the heart of Central Harlem’s thriving culinary and entertainment district, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem is the perfect place to hold your next gathering.