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News Articles: Genre: Jazz

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  • Music Features

Equal At Last? Women In Jazz, By The Numbers

Half of the top 10 spots in 2019's NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll went to women. But a deeper look at the data from across the poll's lifetime complicates claims about women's equality in jazz.

January 12, 2021
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By:
  • Lara Pellegrinelli,
  • Shannon J. Effinger,
  • and 5 more
A shot of jazz pianist Claude Bolling and friends, taken on a beach in Cannes, France in 1969.

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  • Music News

Pianist Claude Bolling, Creator Of Popular Jazz/Classical Suites, Has Died

The French jazz pianist was best known for his 1975 collaboration with classical flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal. It stayed on the Billboard charts for more than ten years.

December 31, 2020
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
The Jazz Gallery All-Stars perform live from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C..

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  • Concerts

Toast Of The Nation 2021

Say goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021 with live music from some of the best jazz groups performing today, featuring the Catherine Russell Trio, Pink Martini, KOKOROKO and the Jazz Gallery All-Stars.

December 28, 2020
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By:
  • Suraya Mohamed
In <em>Soul, </em>a middle-school band teacher makes one small misstep and ends up in The Great Before, a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities, quirks and interests before they go to Earth.

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  • Movies

In 'Soul,' Jon Batiste's Music Helps Bring Pixar's First Black Lead To Life

Batiste is one of several real-life musicians who consulted on the new Pixar film, about a middle-school band teacher who ends up in a fantastical realm called The Great Before.

December 26, 2020
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By:
  • Mandalit del Barco
Lara Downes talks with Jon Batiste.

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  • Music Interviews

How To Stay Human: Jon Batiste Talks With Lara Downes

The renowned musician and Late Show bandleader has sage advice on everything from finding your north star and owning your own orbit to honoring lineage.

December 26, 2020
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By:
  • Lara Downes
Grammy-winning trumpetist Keyon Harrold performs "Ethereal Souls" at Fontaine Capel in Socrates Sculpture Garden of Queens, N.Y..

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  • Music Videos

Ethereal Souls: Jazz Night In America Remembers Those We Lost In 2020

Grammy-winning trumpeter Keyon Harrold performs "Ethereal Souls" for Jazz Night In America's tribute to the jazz musicians we lost in 2020.

December 17, 2020
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By:
  • Nikki Birch
Students rehearse outdoors at The Roots of Music. The education nonprofit has kept its marching band going throughout the pandemic and resumed in-person rehearsal over the summer.

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  • Music News

In New Orleans, Music Education Programs Cautiously Fall Back In Step

After months of silence, music programs are attempting to resume limited in-person rehearsals at NOLA public schools, where the stakes go far beyond what kids do with their after-school time.

December 16, 2020
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By:
  • Aubri Juhasz
Pianist Kenny Barron performs as the audience looks out at the Opera House at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C..

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  • Concerts

A Jazz Piano Christmas: 2020

This year's edition of A Jazz Piano Christmas features REDWOOD, Cory Henry and Kenny Barron. We're celebrating the holidays with swing from the East Coast jazz scene.

December 09, 2020
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By:
  • Felix Contreras
Billie Holiday performs in New York City in 1947.

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  • Music News

New Documentary 'Billie' Explores Mysteries Of Billie Holiday And Her Biographer

The film continues writer Linda Kuehl's unfinished investigation into Holiday's life through never-before-heard interviews with jazz luminaries, and explores her experiences with institutional racism.

December 04, 2020
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
The Mingus Big Band, playing a set at The Jazz Standard in 2008.

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  • Music News

Jazz Standard, One Of New York's Top Clubs, Closes Due To Pandemic

It is the first major jazz club in New York City to shut its doors permanently due to the coronavirus crisis. Its owners announced the club's closing on Wednesday, after more than two decades.

December 03, 2020
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
The members of New York-based brass quartet The Westerlies are rehearsing together thousands of miles apart, thanks to Audio Movers.

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  • Music News

Musicians Turn To New Software To Play Together Online

Since the pandemic started, musicians have been trying to find ways to play together in real time online. Two platforms — Audio Movers and Jack Trip — offer promise.

November 21, 2020
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By:
  • Marcie Sillman
Cuban-born percussionist Candido Camero, circa 1960.

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  • Obituaries

Cándido Camero, A Father Of Latin Jazz, Dies At 99

The Cuban percussionist brought the rhythms of Havana to New York's jazz clubs in the 1940s and never stopped performing.

November 07, 2020
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By:
  • Felix Contreras

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  • Music

Elmo Sings! Watch Him Perform 'It Feels Good (When You Sing a Song)'

Watch a duet between Elmo and Hoots the Owl on stage with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Be careful not to sprain yourself smiling.

October 30, 2020
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By:
  • Alex Ariff
The saxophonist, flutist and composer Henry Threadgill, one of the NEA's 2021 Jazz Masters.

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  • Music News

NEA Announces Its 2021 Jazz Masters

Four luminaries – Henry Threadgill, Terri Lynne Carrington, Jimmy "Tootie" Heath and Phil Schaap – will be inducted in a ceremony scheduled, virtually, for next spring.

October 21, 2020
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By:
  • Nate Chinen
Esteemed jazz musician Toshinori Kondo playing the trumpet.

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  • Music News

Toshinori Kondo, Trailblazing Modern Trumpeter, Dies At 71

From the '80s on, Kondo stood with a new generation of free-form players, collaborating with a long list of fellow iconoclasts.

October 20, 2020
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By:
  • Nate Chinen
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