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NPR: Jazz Singer Nnenna Freelon Works Through Grief With New Album And Podcast
June 15, 2021Nnenna and Phil Freelon were a power couple: He was the lead architect for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History & Culture, and she was a Grammy-nominated jazz ...
Esperanza Spalding Meets Funding Goal to Build Artist Sanctuary
June 12, 2021Award-winning bassist and educator Esperanza Spalding recently launched a successful crowdfunding campaign to raise monies needed to buy land for the building of a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and ...
Chick Corea, Grammy-Winning Jazz Pianist Dies at 79
February 11, 2021The keyboardist, composer and bandleader Chick Corea — one of the most revered figures in contemporary jazz, but an artist whose work spanned fusion to classical — died on Feb. 9 at age ...
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Joshua Redman visits Myanmar
July 5, 2019In this 2015 video, Joshua Redman visits the remote areas of Myanmar (also known as Burma) where the International Rescue Committee provides health, and development support to villages.
Jazz Night In America | Can you hear melody in the drums?
February 22, 2019What would you say if I told you that drums can sing? The best jazz drummers have always understood this as fact. Allison Miller has even made it a core part of her artistic mission — as drummer, ...
Jazz Deconstructed: John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”
November 15, 2018In the first of three in a new series, Vox breaks down what made Coltrane's Giant Steps such a groundbreaking and iconic composition in the jazz idiom.
