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NEA Jazz Master and versatile drummer Jack DeJohnette dies at 83

There's a mobile van, but that's not where treatment takes place

WBGO’s Lezlie Harrison talks with trumpeter and composer Russell Gunn about his commissioned piece celebrating Amiri Baraka’s book, Blues People, at the Apollo.

Jorge Santana, who died on May 14, left behind an impressive but often undervalued body of work.He was a formidable guitarist, and while he never received…

Saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist Gene Jefferson — one of the finest human beings and greatest musicians I have ever known — died on Wednesday at Kings…

The recent passing of Nuyorican pianist Professor Joe Torres reminds us that the important role of a sideman is all too often ignored.A first-class…

Today's selections grapple with the existential crisis presented by string cheese, plus rapper Vince Staples shares a couple of his favorites from #NPRPoetry.

Mutono's infectious, blissed-out R&B reflects on a desire for comfort and community amid arrangements at the midpoint of the cool vulnerability of Frank Ocean and the sleek balladeering of Khalid.

Rasmus Littauer calls himself School of X as a tribute to the experimental 1960s Copenhagen art collective of the same name, but his arty aspirations don't drown out his pop sensibilities.

Sophie Allison has a keen understanding of how music works – not just the technical intricacies, but how it all fits together, too.