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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.
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The 83-year-old NEA Jazz Master turns the Tiny Desk into a place of musical worship.
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Hear the Grammy-nominated jazz musician performs songs from her latest album, Bewitched.
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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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She's among the last living beboppers, one of the first singers on Blue Note and a pioneer of voice and bass. The legendary Sheila Jordan joins Christian McBride for a career-spanning conversation.
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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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The three brass artists featured in our Youngbloods series — trumpeters Giveton Gelin and Summer Camargo, along with trombonist Kalia Vandever — infuse new energy into today's jazz scene.
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Bley's pieces could be ethereally beautiful or subversively brash, but always found a grandeur without tilting into pretension.
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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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Every weekday through Hispanic Heritage Month, World Cafe dives into the music of a different country in Latin America.
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Every weekday through Hispanic Heritage Month, World Cafe dives into the music of a different country in Latin America.
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In his horn, subway cars rumbled, buses hissed, traffic screeched and sirens howled. Homeless for more than a decade, Gayle was forever in conversation with the streets of New York.