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The Kronos Quartet's latest cross-cultural exploration finds the band collaborating with master musicians from Afghanistan and Azerbaijan. Hear a myriad of fascinating Central Asian sounds on Rainbow, in its entirety, a week prior to its release.

From the mid-'50s to 1990, the drummer's band served as a finishing school for elite jazz musicians. Here are five of the distinguished alumni of Blakey's university of the streets, including Horace Silver, Terence Blanchard and Wayne Shorter.

"Never Stop" sounds like opening-credits music for a good independent film that doesn't exist yet.

At the Kennedy Center Jazz Club bandstand, Harris' vibes run parallel to the edge of the stage and perpendicular to his marimba. Like a boxer in the ring, he works the corner where the keys meet. Hear Harris and his band Blackout pound on OutKast and Jackie McLean in two sets.

The pianist builds R&B with old-school values: singers who don't need software, live improvising, hand-built beats.

The New York-bred and Los Angeles- based pianist and multi-instrumentalist has been regarded as a young master in the jazz world.

The Princeton Baroque Orchestra this Friday (6/3) performs the first part of its two-concert "Sacred & Profane" series in this broadcast from the 2021 Princeton Festival .

A Tempo this Saturday (6/28) features a conversation with Five-Part Invention author Andrea Buchanan.

Dances, fantasias and popular tunes for Queen Elizabeth I's Violin Band on Friday's Distant Mirror: Anonymous 16th century music performed by the Parley…

We learn all kinds of interesting things when we're at loose ends during a pandemic lockdown. Did you know that Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Music Director Marin Alsop co-founded a swing band?