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Gary Bartz: Tiny Desk Concert

May 13, 2024 • The 83-year-old NEA Jazz Master turns the Tiny Desk into a place of musical worship.

NEA announces 2024 Jazz Masters including Terence Blanchard and Gary Bartz

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NEA announces 2024 Jazz Masters including Terence Blanchard and Gary Bartz

July 12, 2023 • The National Endowment for the Arts has selected Terence Blanchard, Willard Jenkins, Amina Claudine Myers and Gary Bartz for the prestigious honor.

NEA announces 2024 Jazz Masters including Terence Blanchard and Gary Bartz

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New Music Friday: The Top 7 Albums Out On April 2

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New Music Friday: The Top 7 Albums Out On April 2

April 2, 2021 • NPR Music picks the best new albums out this week, including new albums by Leslie Jordan, Flock of Dimes, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and more.

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Five Jazz Songs Of The Freedom Struggle

June 19, 2012 • For the annual celebration of Juneteenth, today's jazz luminaries — musicians such as Jason Moran, Christian McBride, Orrin Evans, Jeremy Pelt and Bobby Watson — reflect on recordings about the ongoing process of African-American emancipation.

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Take Five: A Jazz Sampler

Zodiac Killers: Star Signs In Jazz

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July 21, 2009 • Jazz being the esoteric art that it is, many of its major artists were similarly obsessed with other forms of divining — numerology, tarot readings, enneagrams and especially astrology. Here are five jazz songs that might inspire you to ask your fellow jazz fan, "What's your sign?"