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Lara DownesIn a conversation with pianist Lara Downes, the New Yorker staff writer says music in America will keep evolving as long as the country keeps an open door to new people and new sounds. -
Melissa Isabel Quiñones; EBARTyreek McDole and Milena Casado had no obvious paths to jazz. They each found one anyway, to the benefit of music fans.
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The Los Angeles-based group joins World Cafe in the studio for an otherworldly set of improvisational music. -
A powerful winter storm walloped a huge swath of the U.S., killing at least 25 people. Electricity is out for hundreds of thousands, and freezing rain and snow have coated streets. -
Guitarist and producer Paul Castelluzzo channels jazz foundations and years of pop studio work into Holy Water. -
The R&B singer transforms the Tiny Desk into his own version of a jazz club, reimaging songs in ways we've never heard before. -
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. -
The English percussionist is best known for his work with The Smile and Sons of Kemet, but Skinner refines his own voice on his latest solo album. -
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. -
The drummer and jazz bandleader turns his seventh album into a party, including Snarky Puppy's Michael League, guitarist Charlie Hunter and singer Lalah Hathaway. -
Prepare your face to assume and remain in the stank position. It's about to get funky. -
Breathless and expansive, Kris Davis' layered music is a mosaic of emotional expression.
