Jazz Masters' first album

First Listen: Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 'That's It!'

The jazz masters' first album of entirely original material pushes music lovers to dance. At its heart, That's It! is a memory trick, managing to sound both familiar and fresh. But this is more than a live performance by a hot band. > Stream this album

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Oui Et Oui: Montreal Jazz's French Connection

Montreal is a city of two cultures: French and English, usually commingling, sometimes colliding. The Montreal International Jazz Festival — Canada's grandest music event of the year — props up the city's elite Francophones. Here are five French or Quebecois artists featured this year. > Hear our picks

JAZZSET WITH DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER

Wynton Marsalis And Vince Giordano, Big Phat Band On JazzSet

The Fourth of July is coming, so we wave the jazz flag with music transcribed from Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Sevens — quintet and septet recordings from the late 1920s — and a new Grammy-winning arrangement of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." > Hear this concert

MUSIC REVIEWS

'My Ellington': A Pianist Gives Duke Her Personal Touch

As a Japanese expatriate in Berlin, jazz pianist Aki Takase has an outsider's perspective on jazz and insider wisdom that comes from careful study. Her new album of Duke Ellington tunes reflects influences such as Thelonious Monk and Arnold Schoenberg, as well. > Read this story

NPR'S 'JAZZ PROFILES'

Melba Liston: Bones Of An Arranger

She cut her teeth as a trombonist in the big bands of Gerald Wilson and Dizzy Gillespie. She scored classic records for everyone from Marvin Gaye to Randy Weston. And, against the odds, she made it as a woman in jazz. > Hear this documentary

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