Updated April 18, 2024 at 12:51 PM ET
Jazz Night in America is a radio and video documentary series that goes deep on stories across the jazz diaspora. On the List shakes loose our staff's favorite new releases every month — from traditional tunes to avant-garde adventures to electronic experiments, we'll keep our ears open in order to present you with a selection of the genre's newly-mined gems. These songs represent just a small sampling of the music released by jazz artists around the world; we hope that as we share our discoveries you feel inspired to embark on your own exploration of what's new. (If you'd like to hear the music featured on Jazz Night in America, we've got that, too.)
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March 2024 favorites:
Natalie Cressman, Ian Faquini, "Nítido e Obscuro / Geraldo No Leme"
Brandee Younger, "Brown Brown Baby"
Baby Rose, BADBADNOTGOOD, "One Last Dance"
Amanda Whiting, Chip Wickham, "Waiting to Go"
Lauren Henderson, Sullivan Fortner, Eric Wheeler, "Si Nos Dejan"
Tara Lily, "No Way Out"
Jordan Vanhemert, Terrell Stafford, Helen Sung, "Call to Order"
Joe Armon-Jones, Nubya Garcia, "Nubya's Side of Town (feat. Nubya Garcia)"
Billy Valentine & The Universal Truth, "Lady Day and John Coltrane"
Gregoire Maret, Romain Collin, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Ecstacy of Gold"
Kamasi Washington, "Prologue"
Ezra Collective, Sampa the Great, Joy Anonymous, "Joy (Life Goes On)"
Terrace Martin, "Bolivia"
Matthew Rotker-Lynn, "Oblivion"
Charles Lloyd, "Defiant, Reprise: Homeward Dove"
Adonis Rose, Ryan Hanseler, Lex Warshawsky, "You Taught My Heart to Sing"
Los Yesterdays, "I Can't Feel"
Joe Henderson, "Afro-Centric - Remastered 2024"
Reza Khan, Bob James, "Language of Love"
Heavee, Homesiick, Takuya Nakamura, "Smoke Break"
Kenny Barron, Immanuel Wilkins, "We See"
Sly5thAve, "Exodus"
Nigel Hall, DJ Harrison, "Earth, Wind & Fire"
Huntertones, "Cincy Kid"
Magnus Lindgren, John Beasley, "Celestial"
Jordan Vanhemert, Terrell Stafford, Helen Sung, "Call to Order"
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