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The R&B singer transforms the Tiny Desk into his own version of a jazz club, reimaging songs in ways we've never heard before. -
Veronica ArevaloRing in the new year with celebratory sounds from around the world.
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Album cover collage by Trevor Smith. Don Was photo (bottom left) by Myriam SantosDon Was digs into the Blue Note Records vault for a different kind of Christmas playlist, bringing together rare cuts, classics and deep grooves from across the label's history. -
Shervin LainezBanjo, harp and drums meet in the BEATrio, where Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda and Antonio Sánchez explore a sound they never planned to create. Hear how the trio first came together.
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Pascoal said he had composed thousands of pieces. "I am 100 percent intuitive," he once told NPR. Miles Davis called him one of the most important musicians in the world. -
From his deep baritone chest to wonderfully fluttering head voice, Michael Mayo joyfully bends notes to his will. -
Trombone Shorty releases new album from New Orleans, a tribute to the city's soul, marking the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. -
The South African pianist and Zulu healer guides us through a meditation on stillness and an invocation of Blackness. -
She recorded a magical debut album on Blue Note and was later named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts. -
London's Sunday Times once called Laine "quite simply the best singer in the world." -
With his beard, long hair and brown felt fedora, the jazz flugelhorn player and composer cut an unforgettable figure in American culture. -
Stanley Clarke and his band 4EVER perform a locked-in set of classics from the bassist's catalog while also giving them new life. -
The superbly alert and flexible drummer formed a swirling current in modern jazz for more than 60 years. He was 82. -
This jazz supergroup has super powers and they're on full display from beginning to end during this Tiny Desk.
