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In this episode of "Live at Jazz, TX," saxophonist Ben Flocks shares music from "Mask of the Muse," a concept album that takes you behind the curtain and into a dreamland. Doc Watkins and his trio back up Flocks for a six-song set.

On this episode of "Live at Jazz, TX" recorded in 2019, the Dirty River Jazz Band pays tribute to their mentor and musical hero, the late Jim Cullum Jr.

Pianist Fredrick Sanders grew up hearing spirituals, slave hollers, classical music, blues and funk, and draws on all of these sounds for this live set recorded at Jazz, TX.

Four decades after his death, Evans remains part of the jazz conversation. A new anthology surveys records the jazz pianists made as leader, from 1956 until his death in 1980.

Check out this interview with Dirty River Jazz Band co-founder and drummer Chris Alvarado about the band's album "High Life in San Antone," and time spent with music during the pandemic.

Maverick jazz composer Anthony Braxton was set to spend his 75th birthday performing at events around the world, but then... well, you know. He has two new boxed sets out this month.

After cutting his teeth in Detroit, a move to New York near the middle of the century found him directly in the center of a deeply important moment for jazz.

A Ukrainian wrote a poem about the freedom of Jazz, then moved to the U.S. to experience it.

Batiste is one of several real-life musicians who consulted on the new Pixar film, about a middle-school band teacher who ends up in a fantastical realm called The Great Before.

An interview with Doc Watkins about remodeling at Jazz, TX, and the holiday music of Vince Guaraldi.