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Piano Jazz With Jon Weber
4:52 pm
Fri April 26, 2013

Stacy Sullivan On Piano Jazz

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Stacy Sullivan.

Vocalist Stacy Sullivan joins host Jon Weber to perform a set of standards, including a few tunes from her tribute to Peggy Lee.

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NPR Story
11:56 am
Fri April 26, 2013

Pat Metheny On Piano Jazz

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Pat Metheny.

On this Piano Jazz session, the Pat Metheny Trio, which includes star bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez, drops by for a set of Metheny originals and a few Ornette Coleman tunes.

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A Blog Supreme
7:53 am
Fri April 26, 2013

Jazzahead! Highlights: 5 New Bands From Europe

Bremen may be best known for its love of soccer and Beck's beer, but every April, its Jazzahead! festival turns the German port town into a capital city of jazz for a weekend

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Piano Jazz With Jon Weber
4:07 pm
Tue April 23, 2013

Allan Harris On Piano Jazz

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Allan Harris.

On this episode of Piano Jazz With Jon Weber, velvet-voiced singer, guitarist and composer Allan Harris joins Weber for a set of standards and a few tunes from the Harris-penned musical, Cross That River.

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Tiny Desk Concerts
5:25 pm
Mon April 22, 2013

Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu: Tiny Desk Concert

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Originally published on Mon May 6, 2013 10:21 am

You don't really listen to an Omar Sosa concert so much as experience it. The Cuban-born pianist's overall demeanor exudes a sense of calm and deep reflection, while a spiritual connection to music and his ancestors comes through in his piano playing.

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A Blog Supreme
4:05 pm
Sat April 20, 2013

Tito Puente: 90 Years Of Getting People To Dance

Originally published on Sat April 20, 2013 7:38 pm

The percussionist and bandleader Tito Puente would have celebrated his 90th birthday this weekend on April 20. And the recently released box set Quatro: The Definitive Collection is a great place to start celebrating the once and forever King of Latin Music. It captures the driving sound of big band mambo and cha-cha-cha that launched people onto dance floors for decades.

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Song Travels
2:05 pm
Fri April 19, 2013

Bette Midler On 'Song Travels'

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"In a way, I use music like we use the Internet," Bette Midler says. "One link brings you to another link, and from that link you move onto another.

Originally published on Sat April 20, 2013 10:09 am

The Divine Miss M — singer, actress and comedian Bette Midler — is Song Travels host Michael Feinstein's guest for an hour of pure radio fun. Midler opens a crate of favorite tunes from her record collection, from Louis Jordan to vintage Hawaiian music to Destiny's Child, along with stories from her multifaceted career.

Here, Feinstein presents her with a solo arrangement of "And I'll Be There," a song written for her by the legendary songwriting team of Alan and Marilyn Bergman.

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2:03 pm
Fri April 19, 2013

Esperanza Spalding On Piano Jazz

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Esperanza Spalding.

On this Piano Jazz from 2008, bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding brings her neo-soul style to a set of standards with the aid of pianist Leo Genovese. Spalding is one of the most talked about artists in jazz today.

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A Blog Supreme
4:59 pm
Thu April 18, 2013

Jazz Salutes Its Disc Jockeys

Originally published on Fri April 19, 2013 4:42 pm

The advent of bebop added a fresh sound to American music. It also added new voices to some metropolitan radio stations: the late-night jazz DJs who specialized in presenting this new music to their fellow hipster nightflies.

To recognize the work of the groundbreaking DJs who lent them critical exposure, jazz musicians of the period would occasionally write songs in their honor. Here are five of those songs.

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JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater
12:34 pm
Thu April 18, 2013

Terri Lyne Carrington On JazzSet

Money Jungle has a story. One day in 1962, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach recorded an album and gave it that provocative title. The repertoire was new blues by Ellington, who was in his 60s, while Roach and Mingus were each about 40.

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