The City of Lights is filled with famous sites and bucket list to-do’s, but for an even better experience, take a more ...

Rocco Scott LaFaro (1936-1961) was a musician of the first order, who found his 'voice' in jazz in the mid-1950s. His played the double bass violin, better known today as the acoustic bass to ...

In addition to his own bands, Orkestra from da Hood and Russell Batiste & Friends, Batiste played for George Porter Jr. & ...

In October, Graham Colombé reviewed Rolande Hugard-Gourley’s book and referred to pianist Henri Renaud’s words about the ...

From breakout Brooklyn band Geese to Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny and dozens in between, NPR Music shares its picks for the ...

From the creators of ‘Generation Barney’, ‘Generation Gilmore Girls’ revisits the popular TV series and asks why it still resonates 25 years later. We learn how it shaped some of the actors who worked ...

Chuck Redd is an internationally well-known performer on both drums and vibraphone. He began his career when he joined the Charlie Byrd Trio at the age of 21. He also became a member of the Great ...

Saxophone and bass clarinet sit, cheek by jowl, with pedal steel, drums and Frances’ eccentric guitar tunings. Her distinctive vocal demeanor, sounding elderly beyond her youth, demands attention with ...

The first thing you might notice about Odeal's Tiny Desk: He's holding a phone in his hands. "Someone really special couldn't make it today and it's my mom," he explains. "I've got her on the phone ...

At the moment this fall when NPR Music's staff began discussing our picks for the best albums of 2025, the mere existence of the record we'd eventually name our No. 1 – in a landslide, it must be said ...