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News Articles: Genre: Jazz

George Winston performs onstage at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville in 2019.

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  • Music

George Winston, pianist of pastoral scenes, has died at 73

Winston's successful albums for Windham Hill Records made him one of the first stars of new age music.

June 07, 2023
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  • Michael J. West
Reuben Wilson's Hammond B-3 grooves for Blue Note Records found a second life in samples, particular on Nas' "Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park)."

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  • Music

Reuben Wilson, organist who helped usher in soul jazz, has died at 88

The funk-ridden grooves of Wilson's music could feel larger than life, particularly those he created for Blue Note Records in the late 1960s and early '70s.

June 06, 2023
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By:
  • Matt Rogers
John Coltrane (left) and Eric Dolphy on stage at the Village Gate in New York City in the summer of 1961. A recording of the performance, once thought lost, was recently discovered in the New York Public Library.

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  • Music News

John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy's fearless experiment sets a new album ablaze

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.

May 31, 2023
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By:
  • Nate Chinen
Record producer Zev Feldman (left) and John Fowler, a charter member of the Left Bank Jazz Society, meet outside the Charles Theater in downtown Baltimore. The building once hosted some of the best jazz musicians in the country.

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  • Music

In a Baltimore basement, a jazz detective strikes gold

New recordings of old jazz performances at Baltimore's now-closed Famous Ballroom are being released for the first time.

May 08, 2023
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By:
  • Alejandra Marquez Janse,
  • Juana Summers,
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Ahmad Jamal, pictured in 2016.

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  • Obituaries

Ahmad Jamal, measured maestro of the jazz piano, dies at 92

The pianist's 1958 recording At The Pershing: But Not For Me spent 108 weeks on the Billboard album chart.

April 17, 2023
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  • Martin Johnson
While rooted in Chicago's jazz community, the past few years have found Natural Information Society opening for indie stalwarts like Yo La Tengo, Kurt Vile and Big Thief.

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  • Music Features

Natural Information Society celebrates its idiosyncrasies, warts and all

The urge to build a community of sound, first found on the streets of Philly playing with The Roots, still drives bandleader Joshua Abrams. Since Time is Gravity deepens the jazz band's own roots.

April 17, 2023
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By:
  • Andy Beta
Kassa Overall performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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  • Concerts

Kassa Overall: Tiny Desk Concert

The drummer, singer and producer gives a virtuosic display of musicianship, lyricism and artistic innovation at the Tiny Desk.

April 05, 2023
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By:
  • Suraya Mohamed
Love In Exile is (from left) Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily. The Trio just released its self-titled debut album.

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  • Music Interviews

New trio Love In Exile is a manifestation of musical telepathy

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?

March 27, 2023
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  • Nate Chinen
The Queen's Cartoonists perform at the Miller Symphony Hall in Allentown, PA on November 22, 2019.

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  • Music Interviews

The Queen's Cartoonists: Where jazz meets animation and hints of musical circus

The Queen's Cartoonists is a jazz band with elements of classical music, comedy and clowning that performs music live to animation, both old and contemporary.

March 24, 2023
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  • Monika Evstatieva
Meshell Ndegeocello

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  • New Music

Meshell Ndegeocello (feat. Brandee Younger & Julius Rodriguez), 'Virgo'

Ndegeocello doesn't conform to anybody else's idea of the celestial plane. When she sings of supernovas, she sounds like a witness.

March 22, 2023
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By:
  • Nate Chinen
Tianna Esperanza, whose debut album <em>Terror</em> was released Feb. 17.

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  • Music Interviews

Tianna Esperanza's uphill climb to conquering 'Terror'

Raised in lily-white Cape Cod, Mass. while one of the few persons of color around, Esperanza found their voice the old-fashioned way: by searching for it.

March 15, 2023
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By:
  • Leila Fadel and
  • Phil Harrell
Wayne Shorter, photographed while performing with pianist Herbie Hancock in Paris on Sept. 4,  2007.

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  • Music Features

The lessons of Wayne Shorter, engine of imagination

Shorter's biographer, Michelle Mercer, recalls the many "isms" and lessons she learned from her time working with the legendary composer and saxophonist on his biography, Footprints.

March 07, 2023
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By:
  • Michelle Mercer
Antonio Sánchez (right) performs a Tiny Desk concert with Bad Hombre band members BIGYUKI (from left), Lex Sadler and Thana Alexa Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, at NPR’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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  • Concerts

Antonio Sánchez & Bad Hombre: Tiny Desk Concert

Sánchez observes the world with a drummer's sensibilities. Here, he and his pals in Bad Hombre explore the rhythm of language in a set of tracks from Sánchez's latest album.

March 02, 2023
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By:
  • Felix Contreras
Trombone Shorty leads a binational jam session with music students from New Orleans and Havana.

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  • Music Features

Musicians in New Orleans and Cuba explore their shared heritage and similar sounds

Artists in New Orleans and Cuba are exploring their shared heritage and similar sounds, and bringing high school musicians from both places together in a funky cultural exchange.

February 21, 2023
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By:
  • Debbie Elliott
Theo Croker performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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  • Concerts

Theo Croker: Tiny Desk Concert

The trumpeter brings his unmistakably chill attitude and determination to expand the sound of jazz to this stripped-down Tiny Desk set.

February 17, 2023
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  • Mitra I. Arthur
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