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Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet, “inter-are”Would it be fair to say Mark Guiliana has been typecast? He’s a drummer best known for his advances along the axis…

On Friday, ECM Records made its catalog available on major streaming services, in an expansion of its partnership with the Universal Music Group. This…

Take Five this week turns out to be a celebration of working bands — from the Bandwagon, led for more than a dozen years by pianist Jason Moran, to…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dee Dee Bridgewater found a moment in her acceptance speech at the 2017 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert, on Monday night at the…

Miles Okazaki, “Well, You Needn’t”How gonzo an achievement is Miles Okazaki’s new release? WORK (Complete, Volumes 1-6) adapts the music of Thelonious…

A handful of piano students were sweating in a classroom on the first morning of a two-week summer intensive in the Tuscan countryside. These were three…

Plus: Wynton Marsalis airs symphonic ambitions and Andrew Cyrille receives his due.Fabian Almazan Trio, “The Poets”Fabian Almazan was 9 years old when he…

Along with a new collaboration between Angelica Sanchez and Marilyn Crispell.Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, “The Last Chieftain”During the second week of…

Philadelphia lost seven great musicians in the first four months of 2020. These artists, like the music, have a special relationship with impermanence. Let us remember them.

Linda Diaz, who won this year's Tiny Desk Contest at NPR Music, is a chess expert and international chess champion. She sat down to talk with us about the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit.