• How pianist Fred Hersch's daring collaborations shaped his career
    Thursday, July 17, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    undefined As he nears 70, pianist Fred Hersch looks back on a fearless life in jazz, sharing personal favorites, stories behind bold collaborations and music from his new album.
  • Acadiana Music Showcase: Marcella Simien
    Thursday, July 17, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    Marcella Simien A ninth-generation Louisiana Creole, Simien's music takes the swamp roots of her upbringing and mixes it with some sweet Memphis soul.
  • 1960s pop star Connie Francis has died. The singer's life was touched by tragedies
    Thursday, July 17, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    Connie Francis fixes her hair during a 1959 press reception at the Dorchester Hotel in London 1960s pop star Connie Francis has died. The first female singer to chart a number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, she sold over 40 million records before the age of 25.
  • ANOHNI and the Johnsons: Tiny Desk Concert
    Thursday, July 17, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    undefined The provocative singer and her sublime band give a soul-searching performance in songs that require us to look within ourselves.
  • Fred Hersch: A Lifetime Of Meditation At The Piano
    Thursday, July 17, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Anita Donndorff: Thirsty Soul
    Thursday, July 17, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    The second album from Argentina-born, New York-based vocalist Anita Donndorff owes its identity to both of her homes. With studio sessions taking place in Buenos Aires and the East Village in Manhattan , and some Argentinians and two...
  • Take Five with vocalist Diana Hamilton
    Thursday, July 17, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • The Circling Sun: Orbits
    Thursday, July 17, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    The Circling Sun plays spiritual jazz with reverence and a sense of reverie. Formed in Tāmaki Makaurau (the Māori name for Auckland, New Zealand), the seven- member ensemble crafts rich tapestries that stretch to the stars with feet...
  • Pink Floyd: Pink Floyd At Pompeii MCMLXXII
    Thursday, July 17, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Listening to any Pink Floyd these days, now over fifty years since the release of Dark Side of the Moon (Capitol, 1972) compels all manner of 'What if?...' hypotheses. And hearing At Pompeii MCMLXII, work preserved for posterity during...
  • Hank Crawford: Help Me Make It Through The Night
    Thursday, July 17, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Live at Newport 1956-69 + New Releases
    Thursday, July 17, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • New Music From Haidu, Novoa, Masters And More
    Thursday, July 17, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • FESTIVAL: Coltrane Jazzfest Brings Labor Day Celebration With Exceptional Music And End Of Summer Vibe
    Thursday, July 17, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2025
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Duckwrth released his latest project with help from a bold alter ego
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    Duckwrth The rapper and producer talks about his latest album, All American F*ckboy.
  • Drake, Toby Keith and 'KPop Demon Hunters' have a big week on the charts
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    Drake It's a slow week on the Billboard charts, but a few albums and singles are still having a huge impact, including Drake 's new single, "What Did I Miss?," and the soundtrack to the Netflix original movie KPop Demon Hunters.
  • RECORDING: Yuchtet’s Debut Album 'Earworm' Is A Modern Big Band Jazz Statement Worth Hearing
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • In praise of the humble recorder — a gateway instrument for millions of schoolchildren
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    undefined The small plastic instrument has long been the go-to instrument in elementary schools. But it is capable of so much more than "Hot Cross Buns."
  • 'Our joy is our resistance.'
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    Alejandro and Victor Hernandez of the group Maestro Espada This week Ana and I share some of our long time favorites. While Ana leans into music discovery, I tend to bring more of the classics. In fact, I build playlists on a streaming service to mix music much like I did back in the era of the...
  • Alt.Latino: Joy and resistance, plus Felix shares some of his favorite playlists
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    This week Ana and I share some of our long time favorites. While Ana leans into music discovery, I tend to bring more of the classics. In fact, I build playlists on a streaming service to mix music much like I did back in the era of the...
  • The books, movies and music that shaped the Code Switch team
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    undefined Once upon a time, members of the Code Switch team were just kids, learning about race and identity for the first time. So on this episode, we're sharing some of the books, movies and music that deeply influenced each of us at an early...
  • Xavier Lecouturier: I Remember Why Now
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Wisdom is in part gathered by the realization that one can only be honest with oneself. There are no lies, only distractions and suppositions that put vision and truth at bay. The wisdom and truth that produces great music is not only...
  • BEATrio at the Perry Pavilion
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Daniel Garbin: Rising
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Rising is the debut recording from Romanian-born guitarist Daniel Garbin who shows his versatility on the album's opening track (and title song) by performing it on his second instrument, the Indian sitar. Although that is not merely a...
  • Mark Masters, Branford Marsalis, and RIP Lalo Schifrin
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Germana Stella La Sorsa and Tom Ollendorff: After Hours
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    For an EP that clocks in at a mere 25 or so minutes, there is a lot to enjoy on After Hours, vocalist Germana Stella La Sorsa 's duo album with guitarist Tom Ollendorff ... [ read more ]
  • Nicole Glover, James Brandon Lewis, Sarah Wilson and Myra Melford with Michael Formanek and Ches Smith
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • VIDEO / DVD: Video: Kenny Clarke Plays 'Black Knight' (1957)
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • BEATrio At National Concert Hall
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • MUSIC INDUSTRY: Vinh Pham: A Symphony Of Innovation And Access In Modern Piano Pedagogy
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • Danny Grissett: Whisper Not
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Karla Harris: Merge
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    With the release of Merge, Karla Harris ' fifth album, the vocalist refines her sophisticated blend of traditional and contemporary jazz. She follows the time-honored jazz tradition of reimagining familiar standards, complemented by...
  • Billy Lester Trio: High Standards
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Pianist Billy Lester 's album High Standards, recorded 2017, in Italy, encompasses Lester's singular versions of eight memorable standards from the Great American Songbook. Although Lester plays sublimely, and his Italian rhythm section...
  • Felipe Salles, John Sturino, Hillai Govreen, Isaiah J. Thompson, Mani Padme Trio
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Roberto Bonati ParmaFrontiere Orchestra: Si erano vestiti dalla festa
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    "Si erano vestiti dalla festa"--They had dressed up for the party. In August 1922, citizens of Parma barricaded the city against a planned assault by Mussolini's blackshirts. They resisted valiantly and repelled the fascists. No fascist...
  • Tracy Yang Embraces Her Multi-Cultural Background in Composition
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Interviews
  • Landæus Trio: Greed Ruined It for Everyone
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Tom Caraher: Ninety Degrees
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    For his debut as leader, Irish saxophonist Tom Caraher has roped in some of the country's finest jazz musicians to bring his music to life. The album clocks in around the length of an old vinyl, which, for some tastes is ideal in terms...
  • Noah Haidu: Standards III
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Standards III, the ninth album by New York-based pianist Noah Haidu, is essentially a trio date with a guest appearance on one number ("Slipstream") by alto saxophonist Steve Wilson . As was true on Standards (Sunnyside, 2021) and...
  • Antonio Adolfo: Carnaval - The Songs Were So Beautiful
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    What prompted pianist and composer Antonio Adolfo to record, in 2025, an album of songs from the 'golden age' of Brazilian carnaval music, circa 1920-1950? He has known and loved this music since he was a child, growing up in Rio de...
  • Lakecia Benjamin, Janet Planet, Susan Krebs, Alex Trembley, Katie Thiroux, Sinne Eeg and More
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Roberto Bonati Chironomic Orchestra: The Gesture Of Sound / The Gesture Of Colour
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Someone once said that writing about music was as illogical as singing about economics. Writers about music inevitably bristle at the suggestion but it might have merit when it comes to improvised music. How do you write about something...
  • Louis Moholo Moholo, Sven Åke Johansson, Olie Brice and Ville Lahteenmaki Trio
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Shirley Horn, Jackie Paris, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Christie Dashiell and More!
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Ojos De Brujo: Color
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • OBITUARY: Vinnie Riccitelli (1926-2025)
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • Sun Ra Arkestra at Tri-C JazzFest 2025
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Chad McCullough: Transverse
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Chance encounters can be fortuitous and fruitful. Trumpeter Chad McCullough, on a visit to Macedonia to convene with family, found his way into a small cafe in Skopje, the capital of Independent North Macedonia, where he encountered a...
  • Brad Mehldau, Kokoroko, Joshua Redman, NYO Jazz and Nick Adema
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • John Yao and his 17 Piece Instrument: Points In Time
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Trombonist and composer John Yao presents a heartfelt and personal retrospective with Points In Time. This ambitious album delves deeply into the emotional and professional journey he has undertaken over the past twenty years in New York...
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