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There are many takes about what La La Land gets right or wrong about jazz. This episode explores how the tension between illusion and disillusion plays out among real musicians in Los Angeles.

Kassa Overall calls himself a "backpack jazz producer": a combination of jazz musician, rapper and bedroom producer. His latest album captures the evolving sound of hip-hop/jazz fusion.

Jazz Night hangs with trumpeter Theo Croker in Jacksonville, Fla., where he spent his teenage years, to revisit old mentors and hear a set by his band from the Jacksonville Jazz Festival.

For years, modal jazz, pioneered by Miles Davis and John Coltrane, has been considered too "learned" or "aged" for a following on the fringes of the form to develop. Now, discover songs that show off the funky side of modal jazz.

Drummer, composer and bandleader Billy Hart has been named a 2023 recipient of the Living Legacy Jazz Award, Presented by PECO.

The National Endowment for the Arts announced the newest recipients of the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship. The NEA describes it as the nation’s highest honor in jazz.

Drummer Cindy Blackman Santana chats with WBGO's Doug Doyle about her upcoming "Jazz at the Bandshell" concert and her new album "Coherence"

Hear the pianist and singer join Marian McPartland for a duet version of "Body And Soul."

The New Standards are making waves by reinterpreting their favorite songs in a jazz mode. John Munson of Semisonic fame plays bass and sings, Chan Poling of the Suburbs plays piano, and Steve Roehm is on vibraphone as they remake songs by the Replacements and the Clash.

Elvin Jones, a renowned drummer and member of the John Coltrane Quartet, died Tuesday in a New Jersey hospital of heart failure. He was 76. Jones' powerful, complex playing helped changed the role of the drummer in jazz groups and influenced a generation of rockers, including The Doors, the Grateful Dead and Santana. NPR's Renee Montagne has a remembrance.