A Jazz Piano Christmas 2018
The holidays aren't complete around NPR without our annual Jazz Piano Christmas concert. This year's event featured pianists Booker T. Jones, Jason Moran, Dánae Olano and James Francies.
Concerts
Wu-Tang Clan: Tiny Desk Concert
The Clan celebrates its 25th anniversary with an old-school cipher at the Tiny Desk.
Dirty Projectors: Tiny Desk Concert
The band takes its quirks of production, rhythm and rhyme and brilliantly arranges them to work behind the Tiny Desk.
Joey Alexander: Tiny Desk Concert
No one in the NPR offices could have imagined how remarkable this 15-year old pianist would be at the Tiny Desk.
Peter Mulvey On Mountain Stage
STEM-focused musician Peter Mulvey brings his impressionistic 17th album to Mountain Stage.
The Innocence Mission: Tiny Desk Concert
The Innocence Mission, ever the most careful cultivators of quiet, encouraged us to come closer, to discover the "thing beautiful enough" in the moment it's delivered.
Women In Jazz? For Artemis, It's Bigger Than A Cause
The "all-female" framework is both integral to the jazz supergroup Artemis and somehow beside the point.
dvsn: Tiny Desk Concert
The Toronto-based R&B duo bathed the Tiny Desk in vibrant blue, purple and orange light to make it feel more like a concert hall.
Boygenius: Tiny Desk Concert
Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers are all Tiny Desk alum, but here they play together at NPR for the first time as boygenius, one of this year's best surprises.
Amy Helm On Mountain Stage
Amy Helm and her band choose to let the music do the talking, delivering a powerful, four-song set packed with musicality, soul and candor.