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The Latest Jazz News from Around the World

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• Lenore Raphael On Piano Jazz

  Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:17:08 GMT

  Hear the award-winning pianist and vocalist's take on tunes like "I'm Old Fashioned," and a duet with host Marian McPartland on "Blue Monk."

• Preservation Hall Jazz Band On World Cafe

  Wed, 16 Aug 2017 14:21:16 GMT

  The ambassadors of the French Quarter paid a visit to our studios in Philadelphia for a live session.

• Guest DJ Randy Newman

  Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:00:00 GMT

  In this 2008 interview Randy Newman talks about his musical family, how Ray Charles has influenced his work over the years and what it was like hearing The Beatles for the first time.

• Aww Yeah, Summertime — With The Robert Glasper Experiment

  Fri, 11 Aug 2017 20:08:00 GMT

  This special summer festival episode features a clever synthesis of hip-hop, R&B and soul, recorded live across two music festivals in New York City.

• Forebears: The Mercurial And Majestic Dinah Washington

  Thu, 10 Aug 2017 14:00:00 GMT

  With technical mastery and endless style, Washington never sang the same song the same way twice. No singer since has had Washington's particular combination of talent, sass and pluck.

• Shocking Omissions: Mary Lou Williams' Choral Masterpiece

  Mon, 07 Aug 2017 13:00:29 GMT

  The jazz composer and pianist wrote the devotional work after her conversion to Catholicism. For her long, endlessly inventive and astonishing career, she belongs at the center of our canon.

• Daniela Schaechter On Piano Jazz

  Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:55:00 GMT

  The Sicilian jazz pianist performs her own tune "Dark Blue," and host Marian McPartland joins in for Cole Porter's "I Love You."

• On The Cusp Of His North American Tour, Herbie Hancock Is Still Hurtling Forward

  Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:00:55 GMT

  Working with a new band and deep into the making of a new record with collaborator Terrace Martin, Herbie Hancock finds himself in conversation with his own visions of the future, now 40 years old.

• Patti Bown On Piano Jazz

  Fri, 28 Jul 2017 14:56:57 GMT

  Hear the pianist in the Quincy Jones Orchestra join host Marian McPartland for some swinging music and a discussion about the role of women in jazz.

• John Scofield Performs 'Quiet And Loud Jazz'

  Fri, 28 Jul 2017 11:00:24 GMT

  Scofield's albums Loud Jazz and Quiet were both genuine expressions of his flexible musical personality. In this program, he performs a retrospective that bridges the difference.

• Lafayette Gilchrist Plays The 'Blues For Freddie Gray'

  Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:11:00 GMT

  The jazz pianist's latest album with his go-go backing band features a powerful song he wrote in tribute to the young Baltimore man who died in 2015 of injuries sustained in police custody.

• Fascinating Algorithm: Dan Tepfer's Player Piano Is His Composing Partner

  Mon, 24 Jul 2017 11:00:00 GMT

  Tepfer sees jazz as the pursuit of freedom within a framework — a premise that underlies his work with improvisational algorithms and a Yamaha Disklavier. He unpacks the project in this video.

• 'Here Come The Girls'... Again

  Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:52:00 GMT

  Drummer Stanton Moore — a founding member of the funk band Galactic — has a new release with "Here Come the Girls" on a tribute album to the late songwriting producer Allen Toussaint.

• Willie Nelson And Jackie King On Piano Jazz

  Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:29:00 GMT

  Hear the country-music legend and the late jazz guitarist perform a 2002 session with Marian McPartland.

• Jon Batiste Fashions A Soulful New 'Battle Hymn' For The Atlantic

  Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:00:00 GMT

  The Late Show bandleader explains how he made a quintessential American anthem forged in national divisions new and how it speaks to the strength and diversity of our own society.