• The year of the 'drumpocalypse': Why high-profile drummers are splitting from bands
    Sunday, July 6, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    We speak to musician journalist Christopher Weingarten about why so many high-profile drummers have either been fired or retired this year in what's been dubbed the "Drumpocalypse."
  • With 'Spark the Flame,' a group of educators aim to inspire the next generation of teachers through hip-hop
    Sunday, July 6, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    Members of the Detroit group I Am In Demand aren't just rappers, they're also teachers. They tell us about their Tiny Desk entry, "Spark the Flame," which they hope inspires Black men to follow in their footsteps.
  • Joshua Redman: Words Fall Short
    Sunday, July 6, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    After extended tenures on Warner Brothers and Nonesuch Records, saxophonist/composer/bandleader Joshua Redman debuted on the Blue Note jazz label in 2023 with Where We Are. And while its successor, Words Fall Short, is right in line with...
  • Judy Whitmore: Let's Fall in Love
    Sunday, July 6, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Polymath Judy Whitmore has taken time away from her busy and productive career(s) to record her fifth album, Let's Fall in Love, and like the first four, it is a smooth and delightful tour of memorable themes from the Great American...
  • EVENT: Jazz Arts Project Celebrates Its 20th Year With 'A Summer Of Jazz' In Red Bank, NJ
    Sunday, July 6, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • Madison McFerrin describes the power of finding her own voice and sound
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    Madison McFerrin, daughter of renowned musician Bobby McFerrin, describes her new album Scorpio and the power of finding her own voice and sound.
  • Composer Ellie Wilson's new music is inspired by ecological data on moth movements
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    The movement of moths inspires a new music project by composer Ellie Wilson. She used data shared by ecologists to create a piece where the insects take center stage.
  • 2025 Rochester International Jazz Festival
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Nick Biello: New America
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Upon listening to alto saxophone virtuoso Nick Biello , a quote attributed to Charles Mingus may come to mind: "If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats." "Slow down," you might say, "Biello is not...
  • Mary Gauthier at The Freight and Salvage
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Reddish Fetish: Llegue
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Once the opening number is discounted as an anomaly, Llegue (pronounced yeh-geh) is a generally pleasing debut recording by the New Jersey-based Reddish Fetish octet, led by drummer Jason Reddish and featuring the Jersey City...
  • Terence Hannum: Revisiting Locrian's The Crystal World
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Lee Morgan: Here's Lee Morgan
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    While Craft Recordings' new OJC reissue series has largely drawn from its treasure trove of Prestige and Riverside titles, the label recently expanded its scope to include two standout jazz albums from Chicago's historic Vee-Jay Records....
  • Sing like nobody's streaming: Aron's Vintage Pop
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Chapter Fifteen: The Kumpania Conquers the Northeast
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • A look at different definitions of America through music
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    On America's 249th birthday, we look at the different definitions of America by revisiting NPR's American Anthem series.
  • The songs that define America
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    undefined Independence Day means different things to each of us. On this 249th birthday for America, we spend some time looking at different definitions of America by revisiting NPR's 2018 series: American Anthem — which had the simple goal of...
  • Tune in to a mini-concert with Ichiko Aoba
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    Ichiko Aoba The Japanese singer-songwriter traveled captured field recordings for her latest album, Luminescent Creatures .
  • Anaïs Drago: the Solo Violininst Who Doesn’t Want to Be a Soloist
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Interviews
  • RECORDING: Jazz Vocalist Heather Ward Honours Musical Mentors And Creates A Legacy With 'Simply Gorgeous' New Album Gilded and Silver
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • How Louis Armstrong became the first Black pop star
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    Author Ricky Riccardi says Armstrong's innovations as a trumpeter and vocalist helped set the soundtrack of the 20th century. His book is  Stomp Off, Let's Go. Originally broadcast Jan. 30, 2025.
  • Four original members of Black Sabbath to play final show on Saturday
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    The four original members of the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath will perform one last time together on Saturday, back in the city where they grew up: Birmingham, England.
  • New Music Friday: The best albums out July 4
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    Kesha Kesha. Kae Tempest. Nilüfer Yanya. It's an abbreviated Independence Day edition of New Music Friday. Featured albums: • Kesha, '.' • Kae Tempest, 'Self Titled' • Nilüfer Yanya, 'Dancing Shoes' EP If you enjoyed this week's show, we...
  • Matthew Shipp: The Cosmic Piano
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Pianist Matthew Shipp has a mathematical side: The Multiplication Table (hatOLOGY, 1998) and The Piano Equation (Tao Forms, 2020) hint at this. He has a metabolic side: DNA (Thirsty Ear, 1999) and Right Hemisphere (Rogueart, 2008). And...
  • BARI-ed Alive: Put It There
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    In an era teeming with standard horn sections and predictable lineups, BARI-ed Alive's Put It There stands out as a bold and sonorous declaration of individuality. The sextet's audacious choice to feature three baritone...
  • Jim Self: My America 3/My Country
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Tuba maestro Jim Self , who always has a creative trick or two up his ample sleeve, has subtitled the third volume of My America, his recorded tribute to the land of the free and the home of the brave, My Country, to which he could have...
  • Interpreting the Lennon/ McCartney Songbook: Par 2, Rubber Soul and Revolver
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Milena Casado: Spanish-born, New York-based Jazz trumpeter, bandleader and producer
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Kevin Goss: Gratitude
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • VIDEO / DVD: Backgrounder: - Happen to Bossa Nova (1963)
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • Chapter Fourteen: The Kumpania Plan
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • EVENT: Christian McBride's World At Sea Sets Sail January 2026
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • Charles Lloyd and Branford Marsalis at The Blue Note Jazz Festival
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • San Francisco Jazz Festival 2025
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Jim Watson: Calling You Home
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Pianist Jim Watson 's wide-ranging career has seen him collaborate with an amazing array of artists across the jazz and pop genres, including Manu Katche , Kurt Elling , Sting , Richard Bona , Chrissie Hynde and Meshell Ndegeocello , to...
  • Naïssam Jalal: Souffles
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Not one to stand still for long, flautist/vocalist Naïssam Jalal moves between at least eight different bands, four of which she leads. Born in France to Syrian parents, Jalal's music draws on a wide range of roots and traditions--from...
  • Saul Dautch: Music for the People
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    It is always a pleasure to hear a straight-ahead contemporary jazz quintet whose front line consists of baritone sax and trumpet, especially when it is as well-drawn as Florida-bred baritone Saul Dautch 's debut recording, Music for the...
  • New Music From Gillece, Thompson, Crotty And More
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Renner, Azymuth, Claudio Scolari Project, Kristen R. Bromley Quartet
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • VIDEO / DVD: Perfection: Elliot Lawrence - But Not For Me (1955)
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • Best Jazz Albums of 2025: All-Star Break Edition
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • RECORDING: Saxophonist Ron Blake Streamlines and Simplifies His Musical Delivery With 'Scratch Band,' Due August 8 On 7tēn33 Productions
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • Chapter Thirteen: Paradiso Fire
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Introducing Pianist Ben Collins-Siegel
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, featuring Ingrid Jensen: 7 Shades of Melancholia
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Although he was born and raised in Turkey, pianist, composer and educator Mehmet Ali Sanlikol says he was not a student of Turkish musical traditions until after he arrived in the United States more than thirty years ago... [ read more ]
  • Camila Meza, Julian Shore, and Billy Hart
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Krokofant: Krokofant 6
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Formed in 2011, the band-- Tom Hasslan (guitar, bass), Jørgen Mathisen (saxophone, synthesizers), Axel Skalstad (drums, percussion)--fuses jazz-rock with progressive elements in a style as quirky as their name suggests... [ read...
  • Ines Velasco, Fareed Haque, Lakecia Benjamin and Carlos Mena
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Polar Bear: Dim Lit
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    When Polar Bear released Dim Lit in 2004, shortly after being nominated for Best Band at the BBC Jazz Awards, it was clear that the British quartet led by drummer Sebastian Rochford were going to make some waves... [ read more ]
  • Chapter Twelve: Toots is in Town
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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