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Think of the best songs of 2021 as a playlist catering to the most basic human urges. Within it, booties were called, muffins were buttered and bloody revenge was contemplated. It was quite a year.
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Think of the best songs of 2021 as a playlist catering to the most basic human urges. Within it, booties were called, muffins were buttered and bloody revenge was contemplated. It was quite a year.
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Musical couple José James and Taali perform the song "I Found A Love" while quarantined in their New York City apartment, in the first of a new series of videos from Jazz Night in America.
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Jon Batiste premieres new songs and takes us through some of the many sides of his rich musical history at the Tiny Desk.
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Members of Brass-a-Holics and Mecca Notes pay tribute to lives lost to COVID-19 with a performance of "I'll Fly Away."
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NPR's Scott Simon talks to the British producer, guitarist and vocalist about What Kinda Music, his new album with drummer Yussef Dayes.
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Hear a concert with pianist Monty Alexander and bassist Ray Brown from 2000. Host Christian McBride picks his favorite songs from the gig that puts both musicians' joy and camaraderie on full display.
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Hear highlights from a show with the Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour featuring Christian Sands, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Bria Skonberg, Melissa Aldana, Yasushi Nakamura and Jamison Ross.
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Béla Fleck, the world's preeminent banjo player, and Edmar Castañeda, a peerless master of the Andean harp, perform as a duo for the first time at the Big Ears Festival in March 2019.
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Kandace Springs' latest album consists of covers of the women in jazz she idolized growing up. "It's a tribute record to give back to what they've inspired me to do as an artist," she says.
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With plans scuppered thanks to the coronavirus, New Orleans trumpeter Nicholas Payton invited two collaborators, Cliff Hines and Sasha Masakowski, to his home studio for two days of collaboration.
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The pugnacious post-bop player and composer, who was mentored by Miles Davis, had been hospitalized since last Wednesday.