Christian McBride's New Jawn performs a Tiny Desk. Catie Dull/NPR hide caption
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Christian McBride on World Cafe
Cracker Island, the latest from Gorillaz, is on our shortlist of the best new releases out on Feb. 24. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman plays in 2019. Swing is an essential component of nearly all kinds of jazz music. Physicists think that subtle nuances in the timing of soloists are key to creating that propulsive swing feel. Bernd Thissen/picture alliance via Getty Image hide caption
What makes that song swing? At last, physicists unravel a jazz mystery
Samara Joy performs at the 2022 Newport Jazz Festival, which spanned from July 29 to July 31, in Newport, R.I. Ozier Muhammad for NPR hide caption
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Sketches Of Tain: Music And Stories From Drummer Jeff 'Tain' Watts
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Sketches Of Tain: Music And Stories From Drummer Jeff 'Tain' Watts
Pedal steel player Susan Alcorn, whose album with her quintet, Pedernal, was the pick for the best album of the year by Francis Davis, who runs the annual NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. David Lobato/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride and Brian Blade. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
The late rapper Juice WRLD. His posthumous full-length, Legends Never Die, tops our list of the best new albums out this week. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm in the 1940s. Courtesy of Rosalind Cron hide caption
Bassist Christian McBride (left) and Blues artist Joey DeFrancesco (right). Courtesy of the artist hide caption
A Reunion Of Brotherly Love: Joey DeFrancesco Traces His Roots
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A Reunion Of Brotherly Love: Joey DeFrancesco Traces His Roots
Grammy-winning trumpeter Roy Hargrove passed away at age 49. Courtesy of The Roy Hargrove Estate hide caption
'Jazz Night In America' Remembers Artists We Lost In 2018
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'Jazz Night In America' Remembers Artists We Lost In 2018
Laura Marling On World Cafe
Miguel Zenón's TÃpico is on Nate Chinen's list of albums to look forward to in 2017. Jimmy Katz/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Though not well known for its jazz scene, Houston, Texas has produced some of America's best jazz musicians, including Jason Moran. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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Christian McBride's 'The Movement Revisited'
Christian McBride performs at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, R.I. earlier in 2015. Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Joey Alexander, 12, recently released his debut album. Rebecca Meek/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
John Coltrane during the recording of A Love Supreme in December 1964. Chuck Stewart/Courtesy of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History hide caption
Christian McBride is the host of NPR's Jazz Night In America. Anna Webber/Courtesy of the artist hide caption