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Long-time jazz guitarist and composer Pat Metheny led the Pat Metheny Group for nearly a quarter century starting in the late 1970s. -
Collage by NPROne hundred years after his birth in 1923, we celebrate the legacy of Elmo Hope — one of the most influential pianists you've probably never heard of.
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That's some key advice from Grammy-winning jazz bassist, composer and bandleader Christian McBride. -
The National Endowment for the Arts has selected Terence Blanchard, Willard Jenkins, Amina Claudine Myers and Gary Bartz for the prestigious honor.
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Across the street from the jazz icon's home in Queens, a site of pilgrimage for fans from around the world, sits the new Louis Armstrong Center, which brings his 60,000-item archive back to the block.
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Jazz Night celebrates dads in the jazz world. Hear tributes from Chick Corea, Bobby and Madison McFerrin, Cory Wong, Catherine Russell and Benny Green in this very special Father's Day episode.
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The artist's first album as a lead for Blue Note grew from a jarring realignment in her personal life. On The Omnichord Real Book, she finds ways to embrace jazz without taking on its baggage.
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Winston's successful albums for Windham Hill Records made him one of the first stars of new age music.
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The funk-ridden grooves of Wilson's music could feel larger than life, particularly those he created for Blue Note Records in the late 1960s and early '70s.
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The recording made at NYC's Village Gate during the summer of 1961 was thought lost until it was discovered in the New York Public Library.
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New recordings of old jazz performances at Baltimore's now-closed Famous Ballroom are being released for the first time.
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The five-time Grammy winner has mounted two operas at the Metropolitan Opera, which until 2021 had never staged a work by a Black composer. Hear him discuss the future of opera with Lara Downes.
