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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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The Chihiro Yamanaka trio is Yoshi Waki, bass; Ferenc Nemeth, drums; Yamanaka, piano.

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October 18, 2012 – The pianist's imaginative virtuosity is beginning to translate to stateside jazz success. WBGO

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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Dave Douglas.

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September 19, 2012 – The trumpeter's new band, with folksinger Aoife O'Donovan, explores a carefully curated hymnal. 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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Matt Wilson.

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September 5, 2012 – A colorful drummer who proudly deploys his goofy joy, Wilson leads a long-running band in concert. 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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Note the message on Kevin Eubanks' cap: "Meet You at the Blue Room." It's a nice club in Kansas City, in the historic district where Count Basie, Lester Young and Mary Lou Williams used to play.

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August 23, 2012 – After two decades as a TV sidekick on The Tonight Show, the guitarist doesn't have to edit himself. WBGO

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Juan-Carlos Formell and Johnny's Dream Club at the 2011 Monterey Jazz Festival.

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August 16, 2012 – Formell performs epic music and poetry, magical and real, about the Afro-Caribbean experience.

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Freddy "Huevito" Lobatón.

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August 9, 2012 – Hear an Afro-Peruvian jazz sextet and a piano trio back-to-back at the Litchfield Jazz Festival. WBGO

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Kurt Elling performs at the 2012 Newport Jazz Festival.

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August 7, 2012 – The mannered, declamatory singer bellows in front of a band featuring pianist Laurence Hobgood. WGBH

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