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The South Bronx bandleader took the Latin genre to new heights while recording for Fania Records.
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How do we find beauty in a broken world? This is the question that Ganavya's music asks, but lets you answer. At the Tiny Desk, she sings the poems of today in the language of today.
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The Netherlands-based drummer upgrades the tradition of syncopated, meter-splitting contemporary jazz with her quintet.
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Nate Chinen, editorial director for WRTI, shares some of his favorite music of the year.
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The Australian trio crafts endlessly irresistible and impossibly tight improvisations.
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In an electrifying performance, Nate Smith and his ensemble KINFOLK are joined in concert by members of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.
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Musician Ahmad Jamal has been a major jazz figure since the 1950s. Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse is a set of never-before-released recordings of Jamal in his prime.
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More than a decade after BADBADNOTGOOD's viral debut upsetting the "jazz police" and carving their own niche playing rap covers, they take the stage in Brooklyn with a wildly psychedelic set.
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A previously unreleased live recording from 1967 finds the iconic jazz drummer experimenting outside the spotlight in a small New York club, assessing his next steps at a pivotal moment in his career.
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Costa's voice was a key part of the sound that combined Brazilian pop music, psychedelic rock and the avant-garde in the late 1960s.
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The title track from Svaneborg Kardyb's Over Tage gives the listener a glimpse of the Danish jazz duo's evolving sound.
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A new documentary explores Armstrong's experience as a Black American musician coming of age right along with the 20th century.