NPR Music - JAZZ

Guillermo Klein: Live At Berklee The composer and bandleader mixes Argentine folk forms, New York's jazz talent pool and a postmodern mash-up imagination. He returns to his alma mater, a core group of bandmates in tow, to coach a performance of his own uniquely beguiling music. Read this story

A BLOG SUPREME Dave Brubeck Was The Macklemore Of 1954 Sixty years ago, a jazz pianist found himself in much the same bittersweet position as a rapper did on Sunday night. Surely proud of their hard work, they also sensed that their privilege as white musicians had something to do with their new success. Read this story

CODE SWITCH Remaking All That Jazz From Shanghai's Lost Era Many Shanghai jazz standards of the 1930s and '40s were banned in China after the Chinese Communist Party took over. But they reemerged decades later through cover versions. Now, the songs are back again in a new cover album by a Chinese-American electronic artist and a jazz singer from Shanghai. Read this story

MARIAN MCPARTLAND'S PIANO JAZZ Herbie Hancock On Piano Jazz In a program from 1987, Hancock solos on "Dolphin Dance" and then improvises with Marian McPartland. Read this story

MUSIC REVIEWS Too Much Of A Good Thing? Jane Ira Bloom's Beautiful Ballads On Sixteen Sunsets, the soprano saxophonist varies and honors melody like Billie Holiday. Read this story