Nate Chinen
[Copyright 2024 WRTI Your Classical and Jazz Source]
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In The Listeners, a seductive cult leader and an unexplainable noise divides an innocent community and warps reality. -
The adult contemporary star, who became a reluctant giant of smooth jazz in the 1980s, died on Sunday after a six-year battle with prostate cancer. -
Two of the new Grammy categories reflect trends that are booming among musicians and the industry.
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An impromptu jam of "Compared to What" gave McCann a career-defining moment at the 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival. -
Featuring young jazz aces like Tom Harrell and Mike Clark, the soundtrack for 'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving' finds Vince Guaraldi at his funkiest. It's finally available in full, half a century after its debut. -
The composer, in a new collaboration with the Grammy-winning choir The Crossing, uses the words of Jeff Bezos and William Penn to explore connections among farming, colonialism and capitalism. -
Across the street from the jazz icon's home in Queens, a site of pilgrimage for fans from around the world, sits the new Louis Armstrong Center, which brings his 60,000-item archive back to the block. -
The recording made at NYC's Village Gate during the summer of 1961, when the John Coltrane quartet was joined by Eric Dolphy, was thought lost until it was discovered in the New York Public Library. -
On their debut album, the improvisational supergroup — singer Arooj Aftab, pianist Vijay Iyer and bassist Shahzad Ismaily — try to answer a musical riddle: What does listening sound like? -
Jazz artist Jason Moran revisits the deep influence of Black composer and bandleader James Reese Europe, best known for serving with the Harlem Hellfighters in World War I.
