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Crate Digging With Christian McBride: Joe Zawinul And 50 Years Of Weather Report
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Jazz Night In America: The Radio Program

Crate Digging With Christian McBride: Joe Zawinul And 50 Years Of Weather Report

WBGO and Jazz At Lincoln Center

Hear an electric fusion set from keyboardist Joe Zawinul and The Zawinul Syndicate in concert from 2006. We also celebrate 50 years of Weather Report with co-founder Wayne Shorter and other alumni.

Crate Digging With Christian McBride: Joe Zawinul And 50 Years Of Weather Report

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Musicians Turn To New Software To Play Together Online

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Music News

Musicians Turn To New Software To Play Together Online

KUOW

Since the pandemic started, musicians have been trying to find ways to play together in real time online. Two platforms — Audio Movers and Jack Trip — offer promise.

Musicians Turn To New Software To Play Together Online

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NPR Music's No. 1 Albums And Songs Of October

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NPR Music's No. 1 Albums And Songs Of October

On this edition of All Songs Considered, we pick our favorite music released in October 2020, featuring South African jazz group SPAZA, Wendy Eisenberg's acrobatic guitar play, Jean Dawson's adventurous pop and Touché Amoré's desperate hardcore.

NPR Music's No. 1 Albums And Songs Of October

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Crate Digging With Christian McBride: The History Of Latin Bass

The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra featuring bassists Cachao, Andy González, and Charnett Moffett. Frank Stewart/Jazz at Lincoln Center hide caption

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Jazz Night In America: The Radio Program

Crate Digging With Christian McBride: The History Of Latin Bass

WBGO and Jazz At Lincoln Center

Hear the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra in 2006, with four virtuoso bassists: Rubén Rodríguez, Charnett Moffett, the late Andy González, and the mighty Cachao, two years before his death.

Crate Digging With Christian McBride: The History Of Latin Bass

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Swinging The Clouds Away: Jazz Takes Over Sesame Street
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Jazz Night In America: The Radio Program

Swinging The Clouds Away: Jazz Takes Over Sesame Street

WBGO and Jazz At Lincoln Center

On this show, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis invite the Sesame Street gang onstage. Plus, trombonist Joe Fielder's Open Sesame share rare songs from the Sesame songbook.

Swinging The Clouds Away: Jazz Takes Over Sesame Street

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Social Music In An Age Of Social Distancing
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Jazz Night In America: The Radio Program

Social Music In An Age Of Social Distancing

WBGO and Jazz At Lincoln Center

How is the Philadelphia jazz community responding to the global pandemic? Pianist Orrin Evans and other musicians are taking on the challenge.

Social Music In An Age Of Social Distancing

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Released Decades Later: 'The Lost Berlin Tapes' By Ella Fitzgerald

In 1962, jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald gave a concert in Berlin, which was recorded but the tapes were lost. The previously unheard concert recording has been released.

Released Decades Later: 'The Lost Berlin Tapes' By Ella Fitzgerald

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Music Reviews

Artemis Brings Together An International, Inter-Generational Band Of Women

Fresh Air

A few years ago, pianist Renee Rosnes organized a jazz band featuring six female musicians sometimes joined by a singer. These jazz all-stars are in alignment on Artemis' self-titled new album.

Artemis Brings Together An International, Inter-Generational Band Of Women

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Five Decades On, An Eclectic Church Preaches The Message Of John Coltrane

Archbishop Franzo King who, with his wife Marina, co-founded the St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church, in a portrait shot in Jan. 2020. Colin Marshall/NPR hide caption

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Five Decades On, An Eclectic Church Preaches The Message Of John Coltrane

In 1965, two young fans heard the jazz giant play at a San Francisco club and had a religious epiphany. Their church is an idiosyncratic and joyful blend of devotion to the divine — and to jazz.

Five Decades On, An Eclectic Church Preaches The Message Of John Coltrane

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Rediscovering The Enormous Social And Spiritual Legacy Of Black Jazz Records

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Rediscovering The Enormous Social And Spiritual Legacy Of Black Jazz Records

As jazz experienced an awakening in the late '60s and early '70s , a record label from Oakland was at the forefront of capturing it. Now, those records are finally returning.

Meet the NEA Jazz Masters, Class of 2020

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Meet the NEA Jazz Masters, Class of 2020

WBGO and Jazz At Lincoln Center

Jazz Night in America honors jazz masters Reggie Workman, Bobby McFerrin, Roscoe Mitchell and Dorthaan Kirk.

Meet the NEA Jazz Masters, Class of 2020

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Stanley Crouch, Towering Jazz Critic, Dead At 74

Stanley Crouch, photographed during The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music's Beacon Awards Gala on Feb. 27, 2006 in New York. Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Image hide caption

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Music News

Stanley Crouch, Towering Jazz Critic, Dead At 74

Crouch's engagement with American culture spanned over five decades, numerous mediums and many dustups. His influence on the life and shape of jazz will remain unquantifiable.

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