NPR Music - Jazz

Robert Glasper Experiment: Tiny Desk Concert The pianist builds R&B with old-school values: singers who don't need software, live improvising, hand-built beats. They're jazz aesthetics, essentially — readily evident when members of his Grammy-winning Experiment band jam with singer Marsha Ambrosius. Read this story

A BLOG SUPREME To Preserve 'America's Gift To The World,' A Jazz Elder Becomes A UCLA Professor When he was studying jazz in the '50s and becoming a revered guitarist, Kenny Burrell vowed to teach the subject one day. Now, decades after his first class, he's never committed more to music education. Read this story

MARIAN MCPARTLAND'S PIANO JAZZ Jim Hall On Piano Jazz The innovative guitarist plays "Blue Monk" with host Marian McPartland in a session from 2003. Read this story

MUSIC REVIEWS Lafayette Gilchrist: An Old Soul, At Ease In A Modern World On Gilchrist's The View From Here, go-go dance beats inform his piano the same way freight-train boogie-woogie does. Read this story

JAZZSET WITH DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER Patrick Cornelius On JazzSet Inspired by A.A. Milne's 1924 book of poetry, When We Were Very Young, Cornelius presents a composition commissioned by Chamber Music America. It features Bill Evans-like voicings and Ellingtonian ideas. Read this story