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• Sun-Mi Hong, 'Care Less'

  Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:00:35 GMT

  The Netherlands-based drummer upgrades the tradition of syncopated, meter-splitting contemporary jazz with her quintet.

• Nate Chinen's Favorite Music of 2022

  Wed, 07 Dec 2022 12:00:24 GMT

  Nate Chinen, editorial director for WRTI, shares some of his favorite music of the year.

• The Necks, 'Imprinting'

  Tue, 06 Dec 2022 15:28:46 GMT

  The Australian trio crafts endlessly irresistible and impossibly tight improvisations.

• Nate Smith + Kinfolk, with strings, live at Crosstown Arts

  Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:15:52 GMT

  In an electrifying performance, Nate Smith and his ensemble KINFOLK are joined in concert by members of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

• Drummer Nate Smith arranges funky grooves with strings attached

  Thu, 01 Dec 2022 17:27:19 GMT

  Hear the premiere of Nate Smith's groovy sextet Kinfolk, with a double string quartet featuring members of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

• Influential jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal has released a pair of archival albums

  Mon, 28 Nov 2022 10:02:58 GMT

  Musician Ahmad Jamal has been a major jazz figure since the 1950s. Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse is a set of never-before-released recordings of Jamal in his prime.

• BADBADNOTGOOD steps into the psychedelic void

  Thu, 17 Nov 2022 17:55:45 GMT

  More than a decade after BADBADNOTGOOD's viral debut upsetting the "jazz police" and carving their own niche playing rap covers, they take the stage in Brooklyn with a wildly psychedelic set.

• Gal Costa, piercing voice of Brazil's Tropicália movement, has died at 77

  Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:35:20 GMT

  Costa's voice was a key part of the sound that combined Brazilian pop music, psychedelic rock and the avant-garde in the late 1960s.

• Svaneborg Kardyb, 'Over Tage'

  Mon, 07 Nov 2022 14:38:51 GMT

  The title track from Svaneborg Kardyb's Over Tage gives the listener a glimpse of the Danish jazz duo's evolving sound.

• The gripping 'Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues' confronts the artist's complexities

  Fri, 28 Oct 2022 10:00:52 GMT

  A new documentary explores Armstrong's experience as a Black American musician coming of age right along with the 20th century.

• Bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma reflects on his journey down a 'Dirt Road' in N. Carolina

  Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:08:29 GMT

  Hear music and field recordings from bassist, composer, and fashion icon Jamaaladeen Tacuma's residency in North Carolina, where he explores his familial and musical roots.

• Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn find solace in color and motion on 'Pigments'

  Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:10:12 GMT

  Pigments comes to terms with the aches that make us human and asks listeners to act in accordance with their bodies' instinctive reactions to change, fear, doubt and love.

• BADBADNOTGOOD live at Brooklyn Steel

  Wed, 12 Oct 2022 17:06:27 GMT

  Watch BADBADNOTGOOD incorporate splashes of psychedelia to its tight, sophisticated sound in a concert presented by Jazz Night in America.

• What is viral jazz?

  Wed, 12 Oct 2022 10:00:57 GMT

  Hard to define, for one thing. But in our disorienting digital age, these image-savvy, genre-fluid, proficient yet irreverent artists can seem like the only ones who've gleefully cracked the code.

• Revisiting San Juan Hill, the neighborhood destroyed to make way for Lincoln Center

  Fri, 07 Oct 2022 16:00:38 GMT

  In New York City, the area dominated by Lincoln Center was formerly home to Black and Puerto Rican communities. Etienne Charles' new musical work addresses that difficult past.