NPR Music's Felix Contreras presents some of the stand out performances of beloved holiday tradition, celebrating its 25th anniversary.

Don Was digs into the Blue Note Records vault for a different kind of Christmas playlist, bringing together rare cuts, classics and deep grooves from across the label's history.

The editorial director of WRTI in Philadelphia shares his favorite albums of the year, including a "thinking person's thrill ride" of a jazz guitar album.

Banjo, harp and drums meet in the BEATrio, where Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda and Antonio Sánchez explore a sound they never planned to create. Hear how the trio first came together.

Prepare your face to assume and remain in the stank position. It's about to get funky.

Breathless and expansive, Kris Davis' layered music is a mosaic of emotional expression.

Despite singing of heartbreak or sadness, Emily King's barely-contained excitement brightens the room between each tune.

Jack DeJohnette, of the most daring and singular jazz drummers of the last 60 years, died on Sunday.

The composer, multi-instrumentalist and MacArthur "genius" fellow, deftly straddles the classical and jazz realms while unleashing the power of spaces between the notes.

With its fusion of funk, jazz, Afrobeats and R&B, the British band conveys a radical mission to choose joy.