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The National Endowment for the Arts announced the newest recipients of the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship. The NEA describes it as the nation’s highest honor in jazz.
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One of the biggest jazz singles of all time, "Take Five" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, was recorded 65 years ago today. Brubeck's son is sharing his father's archive online.
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The three Black musicians risked their lives every time they traveled for a performance. Critics of their music were often racist and unhelpful. So how did they become so successful during such a troubling time for Black Americans?
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To celebrate Black Music Month, acclaimed American saxophonist and jazz musician Lakecia Benjamin joined NPR for a Tiny Desk Concert.
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A new book by Larry Tye -- The Jazzmen -- traces how the popularity of musicians Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie affected the civil rights movement.
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The 83-year-old NEA Jazz Master turns the Tiny Desk into a place of musical worship.
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Jazz bandleader Kamasi Washington has released Fearless Movement, a new album inspired by dance.
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Brandon Guerra and Adam Carrillo are back with a fresh set of Disney arrangements for their quartet. Enjoy this supercalifragilisticexpialidocious set recorded live at Jazz, TX on March 28, 2024!
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Albert "Tootie" Heath has died at age 88. He played drums with basically all the greats of the 1950s, '60s and beyond and is on the first albums that Nina Simone and John Coltrane made as bandleaders.
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Born in 1924 in Newark, N.J., Vaughan came up in the '40s, alongside bebop, a new jazz style she instantly took to. In the following decades, she proved to be one of the best singers of any genre.