NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Laraaji on 26 September 2024. Laraaji has been played on NTS over 420 times, featured on 376 episodes and was first played on 3 January 2013.

Laraaji is an American musician. Born Edward Larry Gordon in 1943 in Philadelphia, he studied violin, piano, trombone and voice in his early years in New Jersey. He attended Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C. on a scholarship to study composition and piano. After studying at Howard, he spent time in New York pursuing a career as a stand-up comedian and actor.

In the early seventies he began…