Latest Jazz Music
- From North Carolina To Buenos Aires With Che Apalache
Together with three of his former banjo students, Joe Trooper creates music that combines the Latin American influences of his adopted home with the bluegrass he grew up on.(Image credit: Jamie Stow/WXPN) ... read more - New Janis Joplin Biography Reveals The Hard Work Behind The Heart
Onstage, Joplin oozed confidence, sexuality and exuberance, but biographer Holly George-Warren describes the singer as a bookworm who worked hard to create her "blues feelin' mama" musical persona. (Image credit: Evening Standard/Getty Images) ... read more - Heat Check: Getting Lost, Giving In
From a raunchy, R&B label debut by TeaMarrr to Vagabon's atmospheric music, these immersive songs command you to stop, listen and let go. (Image credit: Tyren Redd/Courtesy of the artist) ... read more - Jovino Santos Neto Trio
Along with his trio, the pianist, multi-instrumentalist and composer cast a spell over the NPR Music offices in this joyful turn behind the Tiny Desk.(Image credit: Shuran Huang/NPR) ... read more - Jackie Cruz On ‘Hija De Chavez’
Jackie Cruz plays a convict in the series Orange Is the New Black, but she's also a singer. She talks to NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about her debut album, Hija de Chavez. ... read more - Music Moment: Summer WalkerSinger Summer Walker's album, Over It, debuted earlier this month — and it's already broken records. Music critic Briana Younger of The New Yorker discusses some of the album's standout songs. ... read more
- Not My Job: We Quiz Opera Star Renée Fleming On ‘Baby Shark’
How much do (do do do do do) you think the soprano knows about the hit children's song Baby Shark? We'll find out.(Image credit: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images) ... read more - My Signature Song: ‘She Used To Be Mine’ By Sara BareillesListener Ashley Syruws of Buffalo, N.Y., shares her signature song, "She Used to Be Mine" by Sara Bareilles. It helped her break away from an unhappy marriage. ... read more
- Congo’s KOKOKO! Makes Joyful Dance Music From Instruments Made Of Junk
The band couldn't afford instruments. So they made their own out of scavenged items, like kitchen pots and air-conditioner parts. On their U.S. tour, they stopped by NPR's Tiny Desk.(Image credit: Bob Boilen/NPR) ... read more - ‘Fresh Air’ Marks The Centenary Of The Birth Of Jazz Singer Anita O’DayJazz critic Kevin Whitehead offers an appreciation of the singer, who died in 2006, then we listen back to a 1987 interview. O'Day first became known in 1941 when she joined Gene Krupa's band. ... read more
- Los Tigres Del Norte Retrace Johnny Cash’s Steps In ‘Folsom Prison’ Documentary
Los Tigres del Norte at Folsom Prison, a new Netflix documentary, shows the power of music to heal. (Image credit: Courtesy of the Artist) ... read more - The Hold Steady Are Sleeping Over
The veteran rockers talk about the benefits of the nontraditional way they've chosen to record and support their latest studio album, Thrashing Thru The Passion. (Image credit: D James Goodwin/Courtesy of the artist) ... read more - Perfume Genius Previews His Dance Project With ‘Pop Song’
The Sun Still Burns Here premiered earlier this month in Seattle and will be performed on select dates in New York, Minneapolis and Boston.(Image credit: Kieran Frost/Getty Images) ... read more - Angel Olsen, Master Of Solitude
As she's grown upwards and inwards, the singer-songwriter's work has dramatically increased in scope and scale — a mirror reflecting the internal world she's working to conquer.(Image credit: Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images) ... read more - Hear Prince’s Acoustic ‘I Feel For You’ Demo, Fresh From The Vault
"I Feel for You" was a smash for Chaka Khan in 1984. Five years earlier, it existed only as a solo demo by a 20-year-old Prince.(Image credit: Courtesy of the artist) ... read more