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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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Friends of our program honor a handful of departed artists, celebrating their lives in an episode filled with insight, humor and plenty of music.
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In jazz, the best albums of the year only tell part of the story. What's happening at street level — in small venues, clubs and festivals — shows the pulse of the music in real time. -
Recorded just a week and half before Christmas, Jeff Coffin says his new trio album is "kind of a cross between Santa's Workshop and the Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop."
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In the wake of criminal charges against the trumpeter and bandleader, a city laments that a visible face of recovery for his battered and beaten hometown might also have been bilking it.
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This year, Abelita Mateus, Marcia Ball, Helen Sung and Joanne Brackeen create a toe-tapping meditation on peace and the holidays.
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The brilliant pianist played church music and R&B before joining Charles Mingus' band and forming his own quartet. He joins Marian McPartland for a song in this 1989 episode.
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Hear the Nashville pianist play an original tune she wrote for a friend's Christmas present and join host Marian McPartland for a duet on this 1991 episode.
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Bootsy in the house, baby! The great bassist performs tunes from World Wide Funk, his first album in six years.
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The versatile trumpeter made his way from Brazil to the New York jazz scene in the 1970s. Hear him perform with host Marian McPartland in this 1996 episode.
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On this 1993 episode, the versatile vocalist and pianist joins host Marian McPartland to play the title song from her album This Heart Of Mine.
