NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Arthur Blythe on 9 April 2017. Arthur Blythe has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 21 November 2014. Arthur Blythe's music has been featured on 20 episodes.

Arthur Blythe (July 5, 1940 – March 27, 2017) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. His instrumental voice had a vibrato and was within the post-bop subgenre of jazz.

Born in Los Angeles, Blythe lived in San Diego, returning to Los Angeles when he was 19 years old. He took up the alto saxophone at the age of nine, playing R&B until his mid-teens when…