Sunday, May 4, 2014

NPR Music - Jazz

First Listen: Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Orchestra, 'The Offense Of The Drum'

O'Farrill's new album transforms big-band Latin jazz into something familiar, but with a new look. Its music moves forward in a subtle and graceful way that's likely to have a lasting impact.
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MUSIC INTERVIEWS

René Marie On Singing, Sex And The Importance Of Being Eartha

Performing Eartha Kitt's music, the jazz singer says, isn't just hero worship: It's a window into how power, seduction and vulnerability intertwine.
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How Japan Came To Love Jazz

With this year's International Jazz Day concert taking place in Osaka, an East Asian historian (a musician himself) describes how the music came across the Pacific — and how it took off after that.

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