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Renee Klahr/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. -
Renee Klahr/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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This weekend, NPR Music and our partners WBGO and WGBH are presenting 16 hours of live video webcasting from the 2012 Newport Jazz Festival. For your convenience, here's a breakdown of what you'll see online and hear on WBGO. -
Festival organizers also know that they present a music whose creators get better and wiser with age. Surely enough, this year's lineup recognizes the continuing creativity of bandleaders like Jack DeJohnette, Dianne Reeves and Pat Metheny.
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Scholar and fan Ryan Truesdell has turned unheard Evans scores into richly textured works.
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We took recordings from all the bandleaders on the bill this year and put them into a online stream.
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Get ready for the festival with this mix of the festival's artists, from living legends to young phenoms. Find NPR Music's coverage from Newport, Aug. 4-5, at npr.org/newportjazz.
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A boogie-woogie pianist gets his due, Charlie Haden on his late drummer and Portland dispatches.
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The singer, songwriter and pianist is back with a new album of classic Duke Ellington tunes.
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Fans of the trumpeter and bandleader may know that he has appeared in a few movies. But when it comes to the HBO program about his hometown, the lines between real life and acting begin to blur — especially when it comes to his new album.
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A New York Times article explains how apprentice musicians still find masters — just in new ways.
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Ravi Coltrane, Coltrane's son, says the house he grew up in on Long Island is a monument to the life-changing power of his father's creativity. The house is a historic landmark, but it's falling into disrepair.
