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circa 1955: Studio portrait of Trinidadian-born jazz pianist and vocalist Hazel Scott, wearing a black dress with thin sheer panels, leaning against a white piano. Scott trained at the Julliard School. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Tommy Emmanuel Simone Cecchetti/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
New Jazz Underground pushes at the corners of hard bop and hip-hop. PETER LueDERS/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Mary Stallings performs with Emmet Cohen Trio at Dizzy's Club in December 2021. Left to right: Emmet Cohen, Russell Hall, Stallings, Joe Farnsworth Gabriela Gabrielaa hide caption
Subtle, relaxed and swinging — there's something about Mary Stallings
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Kamasi Washington's "Prologue" will give you chills of the body and thrills of the mind. B+/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Pianist and composer Kelly Moran translates her love of figure skating into the luxuriant "Butterfly Phase." YouTube hide caption
Portrait of American jazz musician, composer and band leader Jackie McLean, Hartford, Conn., 1979. Deborah Feingold/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
McLean's Scene: How Jackie McLean made Hartford a destination for jazz
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Butcher Brown performs a Tiny Desk concert. NPR hide caption
The Bat for Lashes beacon has been lit; it's shaped like a bat, of course, but somehow features an intricately woven lace pattern. Michal Pudelka/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Irreversible Entanglements perform a Tiny Desk concert. Photo: Estefania Mitre/NPR hide caption
George Gershwin, photographed in his 72nd Street apartment in New York in 1934. His Rhapsody in Blue premiered 100 years ago on Feb. 12, 1924. PhotoQuest / Contributor/Getty Images hide caption
'Rhapsody in Blue': After a century, Gershwin's musical melting pot still resonates
André 3000's "New Blue Sun Live" tour spent three nights at the Blue Note jazz club in New York. Dervon Dixon/Courtesy of Blue Note hide caption
Joshua Redman performs a Tiny Desk concert. Estefania Mitre/NPR hide caption
From left: Sekou, Dua Saleh, Alemeda and McKinley Dixon Braden Lee & Christopher Behnen; Randijah Simmons; David Muessig/Courtesy of the artists hide caption
Laufey performs during the December 2023 event A New York Evening With Laufey, at The Greene Space in downtown Manhattan. Rob Kim/Getty Images for The Recording Academy hide caption
In her 2015 memoir, Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon credits The Shangri-Las' speak-sing style as an influence on her own. The '60s girl-group's lead singer, Mary Weiss, died last week. Danielle Neu/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Jonathan Scales Sandlin Gaither/Courtesy of Artist hide caption
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yMusic performs at the Tiny Desk at NPR's HQ in Washington, DC on Nov. 11, 2023. (Catie Dull/NPR) Catie Dull/NPR hide caption
Sunny Jain's Wild Wild East performs at NPR Music in Washington, D.C. Elizabeth Gillis/NPR hide caption