NPR Music - JAZZ

First Listen: Ambrose Akinmusire, 'the imagined savior is far easier to paint' The young trumpeter may be the most buzzed-about, sought-after player of his generation. Does the broad vision of his new album live up to the outsized expectations? Read this story

SONG TRAVELS Tierney Sutton On 'Song Travels' Sutton and host Michael Feinstein compare back-to-back versions of jazz standards "Fly Me to the Moon" and "Without a Song" in a session. Read this story

JAZZSET WITH DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER Lionel Loueke Trio On JazzSet Loueke is one of the most distinctive artists on the world-music scene. Loueke gets African-style rhythms going, tapping on his guitar and using his effects pedals at the Kennedy Center. 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

MUSIC NEWS Sax Great Jimmy Heath 'Walked With Giants,' And He's Still Here The composer and bandleader made his first recordings in the late 1940s. In the decades since, Heath has played with and written for everyone from Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie to Miles Davis and Milt Jackson. Read this story