Fri, 08 Sep 2023 14:36:40 GMT
In his horn, subway cars rumbled, buses hissed, traffic screeched and sirens howled. Homeless for more than a decade, Gayle was forever in conversation with the streets of New York.
Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:00:53 GMT
The Japanese composer delivers a highly energetic and joyful Tiny Desk set.
Wed, 30 Aug 2023 09:00:47 GMT
This unpredictable, funky set showcases the distinctive creative interplay between each player's personality.
Fri, 25 Aug 2023 17:41:20 GMT
Nearly six months after his death, a tribute concert and a documentary attempt to capture the spirit of the perpetually exploring saxophonist and composer.
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 20:00:52 GMT
New albums by Jon Batiste and Louis Cato arrive with high expectations. Both — as their experience leading led the band at Stephen Colbert's The Late Show has proved — are stellar live performers.
Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:58:28 GMT
One hundred years after his birth in 1923, we celebrate the legacy of Elmo Hope — one of the most influential pianists you've probably never heard of.
Tue, 01 Aug 2023 15:25:38 GMT
That's some key advice from Grammy-winning jazz bassist, composer and bandleader Christian McBride.
Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:00:35 GMT
The surprise performance at the Newport Folk Festival, now released as an album, is another exciting evolution in Joni Mitchell's notoriously chameleonic career.
Wed, 26 Jul 2023 22:53:11 GMT
Andrade was a consummate nightclub artist who sang torridly of love in a husky voice. A fixture in her home country since the '60s, she became a sensation in the U.S. in the 1990s.
Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:56:34 GMT
The beloved singer and interpreter of pop standards won 20 Grammy awards over a career that touched eight decades.
Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:26:43 GMT
The tenor sax player came up in Chicago and toured in the '60s with Charles Mingus, Max Roach and Randy Weston. Jordan's forgotten album, Drink Plenty Water, mixes singers with a small ensemble.
Thu, 13 Jul 2023 21:06:54 GMT
Five young pianists compete for the American Pianists Association Cole Porter Fellowship in Jazz.
Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:00:52 GMT
Recorded in 2018 but only now seeing daylight, it's the prolific drummer's first release in years at the head of his expressive and enduring Fellowship Band.
Wed, 12 Jul 2023 14:10:47 GMT
The National Endowment for the Arts has selected Terence Blanchard, Willard Jenkins, Amina Claudine Myers and Gary Bartz for the prestigious honor.
Thu, 06 Jul 2023 17:44:36 GMT
Across the street from the jazz icon's home in Queens, a site of pilgrimage for fans from around the world, sits the new Louis Armstrong Center, which brings his 60,000-item archive back to the block.