NPR Jazz

This year's edition of A Jazz Piano Christmas concert features José André, Bob Thompson and Hiromi.

The Netherlands-based drummer upgrades the tradition of syncopated, meter-splitting contemporary jazz with her quintet.

Nate Chinen, editorial director for WRTI, shares some of his favorite music of the year.

The Australian trio crafts endlessly irresistible and impossibly tight improvisations.

In an electrifying performance, Nate Smith and his ensemble KINFOLK are joined in concert by members of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

Hear the premiere of Nate Smith's groovy sextet Kinfolk, with a double string quartet featuring members of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

Musician Ahmad Jamal has been a major jazz figure since the 1950s. Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse is a set of never-before-released recordings of Jamal in his prime.

More than a decade after BADBADNOTGOOD's viral debut upsetting the "jazz police" and carving their own niche playing rap covers, they take the stage in Brooklyn with a wildly psychedelic set.

Costa's voice was a key part of the sound that combined Brazilian pop music, psychedelic rock and the avant-garde in the late 1960s.

The title track from Svaneborg Kardyb's Over Tage gives the listener a glimpse of the Danish jazz duo's evolving sound.