Jazz
Listen Jenny Scheinman & Bill Frisell, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012 WBGO
August 5, 2012 – The flexible, long-time collaborators perform alone together on stage, thinking on their feet. WBGO
Listen Rudresh Mahanthappa And Samdhi, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012 WBGO
August 5, 2012 – Blending South Asian music with funk, the saxophonist's band is electric, literally and otherwise. WBGO
Listen Lewis Nash Quintet, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012 WGBH
August 5, 2012 – A drummer who innovates within jazz traditions leads a classic quintet lineup. WGBH
Listen Jack DeJohnette All-Stars, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012
August 5, 2012 – The master drummer continues his year-long 70th birthday celebration by opening his Rolodex.
Listen Three Clarinets, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012 WBGO
August 4, 2012 – Ken Peplowski, Evan Christopher and Anat Cohen headline this reedy convocation of woodwinds. WBGO
Listen Bill Frisell Plays John Lennon, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012
August 4, 2012 – With his inventive arrangements, the guitarist doesn't hide his love away for classic Beatles tunes.
Listen Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012
August 4, 2012 – The composer has steadily been rescuing the big band from the dustbin of anachronism.
Listen Dafnis Prieto Sextet, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012 WBGO
August 4, 2012 – The Cuban drummer and his next-level comprehension of clave powers a volatile, horn-heavy sextet. WBGO
Listen Jack DeJohnette Group, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012 WGBH
August 4, 2012 – The great drummer turns 70 the week after this electric concert — figuratively and literally. WGBH
Listen Pedrito Martinez Group, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012 WGBH
August 4, 2012 – The charismatic conguero leads a band way beyond what you'd think of Afro-Cuban music or jazz. WGBH
Listen John Ellis Double-Wide, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012
August 4, 2012 – You can take the tenor saxophonist out of the South, but you can't take the South out of his music.
Listen Chihiro Yamanaka And Jane Bunnett On JazzSet
August 2, 2012 – Hear the pianist and flute player in sets from the Kennedy Center's Women in Jazz Festival.
Listen Amina Figarova Sextet, Avishai Cohen's Triveni On JazzSet
July 19, 2012 – Figarova's sextet was the only group from Europe to perform at the 2010 Newport Jazz Festival.
Listen Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet, Trio Da Paz On JazzSet WBGO
July 12, 2012 – Hear two Newport Jazz Festival sets, each of which showcases a guitar focus and a worldly beat. WBGO
Listen Gretchen Parlato, Conrad Herwig On JazzSet WBGO
July 5, 2012 – From two stages at Newport, hear a gifted young singer and the Latin side of Herbie Hancock. WBGO