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Lara DownesIn a conversation with pianist Lara Downes, the New Yorker staff writer says music in America will keep evolving as long as the country keeps an open door to new people and new sounds. -
In a set that spans Immanuel Wilkins' exceptional catalog, the jazz saxophonist brings the heat to the Tiny Desk.
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Arkady MitnikIn a new album, the Ukranian-born, New York-based pianist and composer Vadim Neselovskyi channels the horror and hope he's felt since Russia's incursion. -
Salvatore Geloso embodies the spirit of New Orleans through and through. His band inaugurates the first-ever Tiny Desk Contest takeover.
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Despite singing of heartbreak or sadness, Emily King's barely-contained excitement brightens the room between each tune. -
Jack DeJohnette, of the most daring and singular jazz drummers of the last 60 years, died on Sunday. -
With its fusion of funk, jazz, Afrobeats and R&B, the British band conveys a radical mission to choose joy. -
Glover fought to build a life in music. From Portland, Ore., to New York City, her story traces resilience, creativity and the strength she found through sincerity. -
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."
