Latest Jazz Music
- The Podcast ‘Anything For Selena’ Tells A Story Larger Than The Artist’s LifeAri Shapiro speaks with host Maria Garcia, whose childhood on the U.S.-Mexico border informs the show's storytelling about the late queen of Tejano music. (Image credit: Illustration by Iliana Galvez/WBUR) ... read more
- On ‘Ignorance,’ The Weather Station Compels You To CareDuring an intense reckoning with the global climate crisis, Tamara Lindeman wrote much her new album. For her, the biggest takeaway was "to acknowledge that I could care this much and this deeply." (Image credit: Jeff Bierk/Courtesy of the artist) ... read more
- Melanie Charles: Tiny Desk (Home) ConcertThe rising jazz flutist blends Afrofuturistic jazz and Haitian folk in a transfixing Tiny Desk quarantine concert for our Black History Month celebration. (Image credit: NPR) ... read more
- Langhorne Slim Finds Peace In The Chaos On ‘Strawberry Mansion’After getting help with his addiction and while pausing for the pandemic, Langhorne Slim found songs — happy, sad, anxious, joyful — to be pouring out of him like deep breaths. (Image credit: Harvey Robinson/Courtesy of the artist) ... read more
- Country Star Morgan Wallen Suspended By Label, Dropped By Radio, CMT After Using SlurThe moves came after TMZ posted a video of the fast-rising country star using a racial slur. (Image credit: Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for CMA) ... read more
- City Scenes: Austin On PauseKUTX examines the impact of SXSW's absence from local venues this year. (Image credit: Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon/KUT News) ... read more
- The Blind Spot In The Great American Protest SongJennifer Lopez's performance of "This Land Is Your Land" at last month's presidential inauguration ceremony has reignited conversations about the erasure of Native Americans in the iconic folk tune. (Image credit: John Springer Collection/Corbis via Getty Images) ... read more
- On ‘Broken Harvest,’ Madison Cunningham Is Hopeful For A Fresh Start2020 was set to be a fruitful year for the artist, full of travel and music. In her contribution to Morning Edition's Song Project, she faces the reality of that loss and finds hope in starting over. (Image credit: Claire Marie Vogel/Courtesy of the artist) ... read more
- Immanuel Wilkins: Tiny Desk (Home) ConcertThe jazz saxophonist and his quartet perform three songs that speak directly to the struggle and triumph of the Black experience for Tiny Desk's Black History Month celebration. (Image credit: NPR) ... read more
- Saint Coltrane: The Church Built On ‘A Love Supreme’Jazz Night visits the St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church, an evolving house of worship that has incorporated John Coltrane's A Love Supreme album as their chief liturgical text. (Image credit: /Mark Doox) ... read more
- JLCO Septet with Wynton Marsalis: Tiny Desk (Home) ConcertThe political is personal for the nine-time Grammy winner. Watch him lead the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet through three songs from his Democracy! Suite. (Image credit: NPR) ... read more
- Dolly Parton Says She Turned Down Presidential Medal Of Freedom — TwiceThe singer says she was offered the honor by the Trump administration but was unable to accept, first because her husband was ill and then because the pandemic made traveling to the ceremony unsafe. (Image credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images) ... read more
- Remembering SOPHIE, Electronic Pop MusicianThe electronic pop musician SOPHIE, known for her unique spin on underground dance music, died on Saturday after an accidental fall. She was 34 years old. ... read more
- Double K, People Under The Stairs Rapper And Producer, Dead At 43The LA-born and bred artist, alongside partner Thes One, influenced the sound of West Coast rap around the turn of the century. (Image credit: Rob Loud/Getty Images) ... read more
- Evan Rachel Wood Names Marilyn Manson As AbuserThe Westworld actor alleged that Brian Warner, better known as industrial-rock musician Marilyn Manson, was her abuser, naming him for the first time in a statement posted to Instagram. (Image credit: Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images) ... read more