Nate Chinen
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In the mid-2000s, Ambrose Akinmusire was a student at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance. He returns to the organization, now known as the Hancock Institute, as Artistic Director.
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Pianist Marilyn Crispell, saxophonist Kirk Whalum, and drummer Devin Gray are among the artists performing in Philadelphia in the coming week. Learn more in Moment's Notice, WRTI's weekly jazz listings.
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The indefatigable saxophonist who helped redefine jazz in the late 1960s died in his sleep Thursday.
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The artist's first album as a lead for Blue Note grew from a jarring realignment in her personal life. On The Omnichord Real Book, she finds ways to embrace jazz without taking on its baggage.
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The recording made at NYC's Village Gate during the summer of 1961, when the John Coltrane quartet was joined by Eric Dolphy, was thought lost until it was discovered in the New York Public Library.
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In its Tiny Desk performance, the trio makes music strictly for the moment — creating a shared language in real time.
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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.