NPR Jazz

Don Was digs into the Blue Note Records vault for a different kind of Christmas playlist, bringing together rare cuts, classics and deep grooves from across the label's history.

Banjo, harp and drums meet in the BEATrio, where Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda and Antonio Sánchez explore a sound they never planned to create. Hear how the trio first came together.

Prepare your face to assume and remain in the stank position. It's about to get funky.

French pianist and composer Martial Solal dies at 97

WBGO's Doug Doyle reports on the loss of jazz writer, editor, archivist, author and producer Dan Morgenstern

On the guitarist's first string quartet composition, she comes with a dramatic precision.

Zev Feldman, co-president of Resonance Records, is the guy who single-handedly made Record Store Day a red-letter date for fans of classic jazz.

The multi-instrumentalist prepares for his major-label debut by focusing on the fundamentals: namely, a solid groove.

The opening track to the vibraphonist and composer's forthcoming album embodies a spirit of quiet humility and common purpose, with a deceptively simple motif that opens up through repetition.

Saxophonist Tony Malaby, unlucky at the beginning of the pandemic after catching a very early case of the virus — the subsequent isolation imposed on his playing led him to a unique solution.