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Nate Smith + KINFOLK with Strings Youtube hide caption
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Drummer Nate Smith arranges funky grooves with strings attached
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Ahmad Jamal, photographed during the Marciac Jazz Festival on Aug. 3, 2016 in Marciac, France. Remy Gabalda/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Influential jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal has released a pair of archival albums
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Influential jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal has released a pair of archival albums
BADBADNOTGOOD perform live at Brooklyn Steel. Jonathan Chimene/WBGO hide caption
Gal Costa performs in São Paulo, Brazil in 2013. Mauricio Santana/Getty Images hide caption
Svaneborg Kardyb Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Louis Armstrong was a titan who never forgot his humble upbringings, and also a public figure who carefully assessed his own weight in the world. Courtesy of Apple TV+ hide caption
Jamaaladeen Tacuma in front of the Whiteville Bus Station Sound Evidence/Courtesy of Artist hide caption
Bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma reflects on his journey down a 'Dirt Road' in N. Carolina
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma reflects on his journey down a 'Dirt Road' in N. Carolina
Pigments is a dynamic collaboration intersecting Richard and Zahn's discographies. Clifford Usher hide caption
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Louis Cole leads collaborators through a deadpan dance medley in the video for "I'm Tight." YouTube hide caption
Composer and trumpeter Etienne Charles, in a portrait taken inside the newly renovated David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. Lawrence Sumulong/Courtesy of Lincoln Center hide caption
Revisiting San Juan Hill, the neighborhood destroyed to make way for Lincoln Center
The best music of September includes releases from (top left, clockwise) Björk, Makaya McCraven, Sudan Archives, Alex G and Tyler Childers. Courtesy of the artists hide caption
NPR's favorite music of September, from untraditional gospel to mushroom music
Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, one of five young jazz artists included in Jazz Night's inaugural class of Youngbloods. Rog Walker/Amna Ijaz/NPR hide caption
Youngbloods: Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Youngbloods: Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins
Dancer Calvin "Cal" Hunt during rehearsals for Tyshawn Sorey's Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) at the Park Avenue Armory on Sept. 24, 2022. Laylah Amatullah Barrayn for NPR hide caption
A composer's meditation on the moment, blown up to immersive proportions
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A young Joe Bussard in his basement, surrounded by vintage 78s. Courtesy of Dust-to-Digital hide caption
Pharoah Sanders performs at the Krakow Jazz Festival in Poland in 2018. Omar Marques/Getty Images hide caption
With In These Times, Makaya McCraven has perfected a method in which he weaves jazz improvisation and hip-hop recording techniques together with sensitivity that masks an obsessive attention to detail. Sulyiman Stokes/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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Makaya McCraven's 'In These Times': A musical marvel made by meticulous process
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Pianist Sean Mason, one of five young jazz artists included in Jazz Night's inaugural class of Youngbloods. Martina DaSilva/Amna Ijaz/NPR hide caption
Youngbloods: Pianist Sean Mason
Terri Lyne Carrington, whose new book New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets By Women Composers explores the work of foundational women jazz artists. Christian Ducasse/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images hide caption