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A New Mexico composer has begun performing a song about the forced removal of Navajo people from their homelands. It will last four-and-a-half years, with long silences between single notes.
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On Feb. 12, 1924, a sassy fusion of jazz and classical music debuted in New York, sparking a mutual exchange of ideas still debated today.
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Joshua Redman illustrates why he is one of today's best saxophonists.
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Seventy years ago, jazz great Charlie Parker played a plastic saxophone at what many call the greatest jazz concert ever. A new deluxe reissue of that recording is out now.
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Louis Armstrong had a chart-topping album out just last year, more than 50 years after his death.
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The Grammy-winning bassist, bandleader and broadcaster talks about his love for music, family ties in the jazz world, and the thrill of sitting in with Wynton Marsalis as a teenager.
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The Indian jazz fusion band stops by the Tiny Desk for a historical performance.
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The new album both celebrates and critiques the country.
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A reissue of the 1977 album, Harvest Time, and a performance of the 2021 collaboration, Promises, collectively present the late saxophonist's music as a vessel to gather within.
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Long-time jazz guitarist and composer Pat Metheny led the Pat Metheny Group for nearly a quarter century starting in the late 1970s.