The saxophonist, flutist and composer Henry Threadgill, one of the NEA's 2021 Jazz Masters. Nhumi Threadgill/Courtesy of the NEA hide caption
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Esteemed jazz musician Toshinori Kondo playing the trumpet. Peter Gannushkin hide caption
Social Music In An Age Of Social Distancing
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Social Music In An Age Of Social Distancing
Released Decades Later: 'The Lost Berlin Tapes' By Ella Fitzgerald
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Artemis Brings Together An International, Inter-Generational Band Of Women
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Artemis Brings Together An International, Inter-Generational Band Of Women
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
Five Decades On, An Eclectic Church Preaches The Message Of John Coltrane
Lovett Hines, artistic director and founder of the Music Education Program, standing outside of the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts. Bobbi Booker hide caption
Doug Carn, left, with his wife, Jean Carn, in a detail from the cover of their album Spirit of the New Land, released on Black Jazz Records in 1972. Courtesy of Real Gone Music hide caption
Bobby McFerrin, Dorthaan Kirk, Roscoe Mitchell and Reggie Workman. Carol Friedman, David Tallacksen, Richard Kohler, Ken Weiss /NEA hide caption
Meet the NEA Jazz Masters, Class of 2020
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Meet the NEA Jazz Masters, Class of 2020
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
Nubya Garcia plays a Tiny Desk (home) concert. NPR hide caption
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Jazz bassist Gary Peacock. Eliott Peacock/Courtesy of the Peacock Family hide caption
Anat Cohen and Marcello Gonçalves play a Tiny Desk (home) concert. NPR hide caption
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Steve Grossman, photographed while performing on July 1, 1991 in Nice, France. David Redfern/Redferns hide caption
Norah Jones plays a Tiny Desk (home) concert. NPR/NPR hide caption
Every now and again, a young jazz musician turns up out of nowhere to take the whole scene by surprise, and then by storm. That's exactly what we're seeing right now from Micah Thomas. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
