NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Roscoe Mitchell on 9 August 2023. Roscoe Mitchell has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 12 episodes and was first played on 3 July 2016.

Roscoe Mitchell (b. August 3, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an African American composer, jazz multi-instrumentalist and educator, mostly known for being "a technically superb — if idiosyncratic — saxophonist." He has been called "one of the key figures" in avant-garde jazz who has been "at the forefront of modern music" for the past thirty years. He continues "to be a major figure." He has even been called…