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From the beginning, Thumbscrew has had a thing for off-kilter rhythms and shifting accents. This new album is filled with idiosyncratic tunes — music befitting of the idiosyncratic band.

A new documentary explores Armstrong's experience as a Black American musician coming of age right along with the 20th century.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with music historian Ayana Contreras about the death of musician Pharoah Sanders and the legacy he leaves behind.

Sanders, revered as one of the avant-garde's greatest tenor saxophonists, was a member of John Coltrane's final quartet. His expressive playing laid a path for generations of musicians.

After finding an abysmally low number of women artists' work within jazz's unoffical book of standards, Carrington set out to fix the problem with a book of her own.

Many credit Ramsey Lewis with helping to revive jazz, a genre that was lagging in popularity in the 1960s.

In this set recorded live at Jazz, TX, pianist Aaron Prado and his sextet play music by Thelonious Monk, and pull some left field numbers out of the bag to close the show, including a wild tune by the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

The Jazz Protagonists, with special guest Richard Oppenheim, play music of the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet of the 1950s and early 1960s in this set recorded live at Jazz, TX.

Beginning in the early '50s, Taylor treated his projects and artists with lush care and extensive support, eventually creating a Grammy-winning, cross-genre artistic hub with his label, CTI.

On Valse Sinistre, Drummond's ride-cymbal beat is lively, varied and full of passing cross-rhythms — the sound of a musician fully engaged and in the habit of attentive listening.