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The album's not dead! Want proof? NPR Music's list of the best albums of 2023 features masterworks by veterans, newcomers, iconoclasts and at least one supergroup.
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The Grammy-winning bassist, bandleader and broadcaster talks about his love for music, family ties in the jazz world, and the thrill of sitting in with Wynton Marsalis as a teenager.
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A reissue of the 1977 album, Harvest Time, and a performance of the 2021 collaboration, Promises, collectively present the late saxophonist's music as a vessel to gather within.
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The Japanese composer delivers a highly energetic and joyful Tiny Desk set.
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This unpredictable, funky set showcases the distinctive creative interplay between each player's personality.
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Nearly six months after his death, a tribute concert and a documentary attempt to capture the spirit of the perpetually exploring saxophonist and composer.
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Absent from the recording studio for more than a decade, the restless musician has commissioned six composers for his new album.
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New albums by Jon Batiste and Louis Cato arrive with high expectations. Both — as their experience leading led the band at Stephen Colbert's The Late Show has proved — are stellar live performers.
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With plenty of humor, the octogenarian talks about her far-reaching career — including why she fled the modernist school of composers — and some mysterious visitations from her dead heroes.
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Andrade was a consummate nightclub artist who sang torridly of love in a husky voice. A fixture in her home country since the '60s, she became a sensation in the U.S. in the 1990s.