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Philadelphia's jazz culture nurtures new artists through educational programs that work hard to ensure the genre's future.

Philadelphia lost seven great musicians in the first four months of 2020. These artists, like the music, have a special relationship with impermanence. Let us remember them.

Since 2017, Slingshot—a collaboration between NPR Music and the digital music service VuHaus—has provided a platform where 'taste-making' music stations…

Here is the second of three stories highlighting a cross-section of some of the incredible bass players to have come out of Philly.

Here is the first of three stories highlighting a cross-section of some of the incredible bass players to have come out of Philly.

The cohort of carefully selected emerging jazz musicians that make up the LUQ Boysie Lowery Living Jazz Residency collaborate to perform original works…

As America and the world reexamine race and equality, creatives are addressing these issues by producing art and music. NPR Music stations invited artists…

It's Jazz Appreciation Month, and WRTI is highlighting vocalist Laurin Talese as part of a diverse playlist featuring both established and emerging women…

January 13, 2020. Jonathan Scales Fourchestra sessions—filmed as part of the noncomMUSIC Alliance's debut of the 2019 Public Radio Music Sumit—showcase…

NPR's recent debut of its new microsite, Live Sessions From NPR Music Stations Across America, now features “Philly Jazz,” a mix of music videos curated…