Daniel Caesar. Cassanova Cabrera/Courtesy of the artist hide caption toggle caption Cassanova Cabrera/Courtesy of the artist All Songs Considered New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 7 April 7, 2023 • Our favorite new releases for April 7, 2023, include: New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 7 Listen · 29:17 29:17 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1168474631/1203301965" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Meshell Ndegeocello Charlie Gross/Courtesy of the artist hide caption toggle caption Charlie Gross/Courtesy of the artist #NowPlaying Meshell Ndegeocello (feat. Brandee Younger & Julius Rodriguez), 'Virgo' WRTI March 22, 2023 • Ndegeocello doesn't conform to anybody else's idea of the celestial plane. When she sings of supernovas, she sounds like a witness.
Brandee Younger Erin O'Brien/Courtesy of the artist hide caption toggle caption Erin O'Brien/Courtesy of the artist #NowPlaying Brandee Younger, 'You're a Girl for One Man Only' WRTI February 23, 2023 • Rooted in the lineage of Black music, Younger interprets a tune by Dorothy Ashby, a pioneer of genre-bending harp.
Samara Joy performs at the 2022 Newport Jazz Festival, which spanned from July 29 to July 31, in Newport, R.I. Ozier Muhammad for NPR hide caption toggle caption Ozier Muhammad for NPR The Picture Show After a pandemic disruption, Newport Jazz Festival makes a poignant, euphoric return August 3, 2022 • The festival's first full edition in two years — and its first since the death of co-founder George Wein — saw dynamic performances from Newport veterans alongside glowing debuts from newcomers.
The Keyon Harrold Quintet's performance is featured in this year's Toast of the Nation. Courtesy of the artist hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of the artist Toast Of The Nation Celebrate New Year's Eve With NPR's Toast of the Nation December 29, 2021 • Ring in the New Year with music from the Quinteto Astor Piazzolla, Brandee Younger, Cory Henry, Keyon Harrold, and Louis Cole. Brandee Younger Quartet 58:26 Toggle more options Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1065199356/1065200578" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Renee Klahr/NPR Music Features NPR Music's 100 Best Songs of 2021 (20-1) December 2, 2021 • Think of the best songs of 2021 as a playlist catering to the most basic human urges. Within it, booties were called, muffins were buttered and bloody revenge was contemplated. It was quite a year.
Jazz Night in America Monthly Mixtape NPR hide caption toggle caption NPR Jazz Night In America: Video Episodes And Shorts Jazz Night's Monthly Mixtape: Kamasi Washington, Brandee Younger And More July 2, 2021 • Jazz is alive and thriving! Each month, the Jazz Night staff curates a playlist of new music that caught our attention. For June, work by Brandee Younger, Kamasi Washington, Hiatus Kaiyote and more.
Brandee Younger Erin Patrice O'Brien/Courtesy of the artist hide caption toggle caption Erin Patrice O'Brien/Courtesy of the artist #NowPlaying Brandee Younger, 'Reclamation' WBGO June 30, 2021 • The first single from Somewhere Different, her gleaming Impulse debut, is a driving jazz-funk sunburst that calls back to a heyday of popular Black musical uplift.
Illustration: Rae Pozdro for NPR Best Music Of 2020 The 100 Best Songs Of 2020 (Nos. 60-41) December 3, 2020 • Think of these 100 songs (Nos. 60-41 here) as a silver linings playlist for the worst year of our collective lives.
Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger: Alone Together Duets | JAZZ NIGHT IN AMERICA NPR hide caption toggle caption NPR Jazz Night In America: Video Episodes And Shorts Dezron Douglas And Brandee Younger: Alone Together Duets WBGO and Jazz at Lincoln Center May 19, 2020 • For Jazz Night in America's Alone Together Duets series, harpist Brandee Younger and bassist Dezron Douglas perform "Toilet Paper Romance" from their living room in East Harlem, N.Y.
Brandee Younger's Soul Awakening comes out June 7. Erin Patrice O'Brien/Courtesy of the artist hide caption toggle caption Erin Patrice O'Brien/Courtesy of the artist Review First Listen Brandee Younger Plucks And Shimmers A 'Soul Awakening' WBGO May 30, 2019 • The jazz harpist's sophomore record is celestial, groove-forward and unabashed about its alchemies of style. Ravi Coltrane guests.
Brandee Younger and Edmar Castañeda. Courtesy of the artists hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of the artists Jazz Night In America: The Radio Program Return Of The Jazz Harp WBGO and Jazz at Lincoln Center June 17, 2016 • Brandee Younger and Edmar Castañeda are bringing the ancient instrument back to the music. Hear concerts recorded at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Return Of The Jazz Harp 56:36
Brandee Younger performs for an NPR Music Field Recording in January 2013. NPR hide caption toggle caption NPR Jazz Night In America: Video Episodes And Shorts Brandee Younger: Taxidermy, Two-Headed Skeletons And Jazz Harp WBGO June 6, 2013 • In New York's SoHo lies a small merchant which peddles preserved insects, skulls, bones and more. Unnerved — well, mostly — the improvising harpist generates a Caribbean bounce amid the glass cases.