Nate Chinen
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In its Tiny Desk performance, the trio makes music strictly for the moment — creating a shared language in real time. -
Brian Blade's band makes jazz-inflected, gospel-rooted music suffused with a glowing consonance.
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Irreversible Entanglements gives Sun Ra's apocalyptic jam a heavy-gauge upgrade — shape-shifting in and out of a groove, but always rooted in the terrifying hypothetical at hand.
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This celebration honors this year's NEA Jazz Masters award recipients, including Regina Carter, Kenny Garrett, Louis Hayes and Sue Mingus. Watch live Sat, April 1, 7:30 p.m. ET!
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Pablo Batista, Papo Vazquez and Elio Villafranca join forces at Taller Puertorriqueño to honor the legacy of Jesse Malpica-Bermudez on April 4, what would have been his 80th birthday.
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On their debut album, the improvisational supergroup — singer Arooj Aftab, pianist Vijay Iyer and bassist Shahzad Ismaily — try to answer a musical riddle: What does listening sound like?
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On their debut album, the improvisational supergroup — singer Arooj Aftab, pianist Vijay Iyer and bassist Shahzad Ismaily — try to answer a musical riddle: What does listening sound like?
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Ndegeocello doesn't conform to anybody else's idea of the celestial plane. When she sings of supernovas, she sounds like a witness.
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Rooted in the lineage of Black music, Younger interprets a tune by Dorothy Ashby, a pioneer of genre-bending harp.
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“'I Want to Talk About You’ is one of my favorite love songs by one of my favorite artists,” says Catherine Russell, who is releasing the single as a benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America.
