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Drummer Lewis Nash performs at the 2012 Newport Jazz Festival.

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October 25, 2012 – Back-to-back, hear the innovative drummer and nine-time Grammy-winning vocalist perform at Newport.

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Saxophonist John Ellis (center) performs with Matt Perrine (left) on sousaphone at the 2012 Newport Jazz Festival.

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October 18, 2012 – Intense, forward-looking music for dancing and dreaming, recorded live at the Newport Jazz Festival. WBGO

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Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes.

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October 4, 2012 – Hear the two-piano duo make a "unique sound that is the sum of both of us" at the Kennedy Center.

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Virginia Mayhew and bassist Harvie S perform at the Mary Lou Williams Festival.

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September 27, 2012 – Russell and Mayhew present the music of Mary Lou Williams at the festival that bears her name. WBGO

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The Branford Marsalis Quartet.

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September 6, 2012 – Hear the first host of JazzSet bring his long-running quartet to the Napa Valley Opera House. WBGO

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Regina Carter (right) with Yacouba Sissoko.

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August 30, 2012 – A violin channels Africa and a trumpet speaks to kids: a 2011 Newport Jazz double bill.

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Chihiro Yamanaka performs at the Kennedy Center during the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival.

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August 2, 2012 – Hear the pianist and flute player in sets from the Kennedy Center's Women in Jazz Festival.

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Sean Jones performs at the Detroit Jazz Festival.

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June 7, 2012 – The trumpeter and the drummer each bring high-energy bands to the Detroit Jazz Festival.

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Russell Malone (left) and Tassili Bond perform at the Kennedy Center.

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May 31, 2012 – The guitarist's uptempo tunes swing and his ballads melt at the Kennedy Center.

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James Farm, left to right: Matt Penman, Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Eric Harland.

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April 12, 2012 – Hear Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman and Eric Harland, live from the BeanTown Jazz Festival. WGBH

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Benny Green.

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March 29, 2012 – The trio presents Monk's Dream: Fifty Years Fresh at the KC Jazz Club with Gary Smulyan. WBGO

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 The Either/Orchestra at the New School in New York City from left to right: Charlie Kohlhase, Hailey Niswanger, Russ Gershon, saxophones; Joel Yennior, trombone; Tom Halter and Dan Rosenthal, trumpets; Gilson Schachnik, piano; Rick McLaughlin, bass; Pablo Bencid, drums; Vicente Lebron, percussion.

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February 17, 2012 – Russ Gershon's new work, The Collected Unconscious, wails and rocks at the New School in New York. WBGO

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Steve Wilson (center) brought a quartet and a string section to the Kennedy Center to pay tribute to the Charlie Parker With Strings LP.

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February 2, 2012 – Today's alto man renews a classic, Charlie Parker With Strings, at the Kennedy Center. WBGO

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