(Tempe, AZ) - Jazz piano player, Renee Rosnes talks to KJZZ's Blaise Lantana about her career and home life. Hear how she started in the world of music and the downside to touring often. This interview is from 2012 and recorded on location at The Nash in downtown Phoenix.

The Mesa Arts Center is getting a $58,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Hear some of the best guitarists from Charlie Christian, Grant Green, and Wes Montgomery to the latest from George Benson, Pat Martino, Royce Campbell and Stanley Jordan. Also, local guitarist Stan Sorenson stops by with his guitar to catch up and play live in studio. Jazz awakes Monday at 8 on KJZZ.

New Orleans Trumpeter Terence Blanchard got his start with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and then played with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. His Grammy winning song cycle, "A Tale of God's Will" (A Requiem for Hurricane Katrina), was an emotional tour de force about this natural disaster. His unmistakable compositional style and playing can be heard on nearly 50 film scores. Since 2000, Blanchard has served as Artistic Director at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz and as of August 2011 he was named the Artistic Director of the Henry Mancini Institute at the University of Miami Frost School of Music.

Pianist Billy Childs is a triple threat of music -- an accomplished player who apprenticed with JJ Johnson and Freddie Hubbard, and a Grammy winning arranger and composer. He easily combines the lyrical beauty of jazz and classical music into a sound that critics say is impossible to tell where jazz ends and classical begins. Childs was awarded a 2006 Chamber Music America composer’s grant and received a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.  In January 2010, The Detroit Symphony premiered Childs’ Concerto For Violin And Orchestra with Regina Carter as soloist. He's recently performed with Yo-Yo Ma, Sting, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, the Kronos Quartet, Wynton Marsalis, Jack DeJohnette, Ron Carter, the Ying String Quartet, the American Brass Quintet, and Chris Botti. Jazz awakes at 8 Monday through Friday on KJZZ.