Take Five

Plus: Wynton Marsalis airs symphonic ambitions and Andrew Cyrille receives his due.

Along with the latest by Kneebody and Sarathy Korwar.

Along with Wadada Leo Smith’s salute to Rosa Parks, Wynton Marsalis’ soundtrack to Bolden, and Tom McDermott’s take on a Joplin rag.

Stretch your horizons this week in Take Five.

The National Endowment for the Arts inducts its 2019 Jazz Masters on April 15.

In advance of the main event — a tribute concert at the Kennedy Center, which we’ll livestream here at WBGO — we’re celebrating the new class of honorees in Take Five.

Along with saxophonist Michaël Attias and trombonist Joe Fiedler.

And a premiere by bassist André Carvalho, whom you should get to know.

Take Five looks to the earth and the sky, and covers a galactic range of style.

This week’s Take Five is a supersize preview, featuring picks for Friday and Saturday nights. 

This week, WBGO announcers take over Take Five with 12 — wait, make that a baker’s dozen — favorite holiday tracks. 

We know it can be hard to shop for the jazz fan in your life. Especially in this day and age — when so much of our music arrives in digital form, or through a streaming service. So in this Holiday Gift Guide edition of Take Five I gathered 15 new releases, from throwback to ultramodern, that are well worth savoring as physical objects. 

Thanksgiving is here — and with it, five new reasons to be thankful.