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Help Us Make An Exquisite Corpse In New York City
For this year's edition of Make Music New York, we come not to praise the dead, but to sing the blues and create a new "exquisite corpse."This Sunday, June 21 at 4 p.m. ET, join NPR Music and regulars...
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Ornette Coleman, Jazz Iconoclast, Dies At 85
Ornette Coleman, the American saxophonist and composer who liberated jazz from conventional harmony, tonality, structure and expectation, died early on Thursday of cardiac arrest in Manhattan. He was...
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Three Jazz Pianists, A Generation After Apartheid
In South Africa, the major art of resistance during apartheid was jazz: a melting pot where folk songs and hymns defiantly mixed with influences from South Asia, America and West Africa. South African...
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Clark Terry, Ebullient Jazz Trumpeter, Has Died
Jazz trumpeter Clark Terry has died. The musician's ebullient personality reached a nationwide audience as a member of NBC's Tonight Show band, and the sound of his expressive trumpet inspired younger...
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Introducing The Reginald Cyntje Group: Who Are These Guys?
The artists featured on this week's Jazz Night In AmericaWednesday Night Webcast are, by a fair margin, the least-known performers we've had on the program. Their names don't travel far outside the...
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An Upset Either Way: Steve Lehman And Wadada Leo Smith Triumph
Could anyone have predicted that Steve Lehman and Wadada Leo Smith would place first and second in this year's NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll, among a field including previous winners Sonny Rollins, Vijay...
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After Sandy Hook, A Saxophonist Remembers A 'Beautiful Life'
Jimmy Greene's Beautiful Life is dedicated to the memory of his 6-year-old daughter, Ana Márquez-Greene, one of the 20 children killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn....
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A Jazz Institution Moves Back Home To Los Angeles
Last weekend, at a sold-out, star-studded gala concert in Hollywood, Pharrell Williams and Herbie Hancock remixed Williams' hit "Happy," Kevin Spacey served up a compelling Frank Sinatra imitation...
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What Is Jazz Night In America?
Along with NPR Music's partners at WBGO and Jazz At Lincoln Center, we're proud to announce a new public media initiative: Jazz Night In America. You can check it out on your local public radio...
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Newport Jazz 2014 In Photos
The Newport Jazz Festival turned 60 this year, and expanded to three days to celebrate. Throughout last weekend, more than 45 bands performed at Fort Adams State Park in coastal Rhode Island, playing...
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The Future Of Intense Art: A Free-Jazz Event Looks Forward
"We had to do things ourselves until something else kicked in," bassist William Parker said at a panel earlier this month. He was explaining how he came to co-found the Vision Festival. "And nothing's...
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Ethereal Jazz Singer Jimmy Scott Dies
Singer Jimmy Scott died of natural causes Thursday morning at his home in Las Vegas at age 88, according to his booking agent, Jean-Pierre Leduc. Scott suffered from Kallmann's syndrome, a lifelong...
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The First African-American Piano Manufacturer
At the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival in February, one couldn't help but notice the striking new grand piano on the main stage, emblazoned with the name SHADD. When the many accomplished pianists that...
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How Japan Came To Love Jazz
If you've witnessed a headlining performance from pianists Toshiko Akiyoshi or Hiromi, visited a "jazu kissa" cafe where records are spun and coffee poured, or read nearly any work by author Haruki...
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13 Jazz Artists Awarded Over $1.7 Million
Yesterday, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced the recipients of its 2014 Performing Artist Awards, including 13 jazz and improvising musicians, who will receive at least $1.7 million in...
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Why Metallica's Bassist Is Producing A Jazz Documentary
It seems an unlikely match.In one corner, you have Metallica's Robert Trujillo. The most popular heavy metal bassist alive, he prowls beast-like across arena stages, rumbling guts with the low B on the...
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Jazz Journalists Association Recognizes Its Musicians Of The Year
Longtime friends and collaborators Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter headline the winners of the 2014 JJA Jazz Awards for musical achievement, which were announced today.The awards, annually nominated...
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Wayne Henderson, Jazz Crusaders Co-Founder, Dies
Wayne Henderson, trombonist and co-founding member of the popular jazz-funk band The Jazz Crusaders (later known as The Crusaders), died Friday, April 4, in Culver City, Calif. The cause of death was...
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A Guitarist Starts Anew, Except For This Old Song
Matt Stevens' recorded debut as a leader was supposed to have come out back in 2011."I had a record that was completely done," the guitarist says. "But circumstances change, and by the time it came to...
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Possessed By Joy: A North American Drummer In Cuba
In Afro-Cuban religious ceremonies, it's common for participants to become possessed by spirits. All sorts of people are possessed: older ladies and teenage boys, lifelong adherents and new initiates....
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