2 Chainz: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
The Atlanta rap star brings us into his nail salon for a Tiny Desk quarantine concert, part of our Black History Month celebration.
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Rick Ross: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Miami's biggest boss performs six songs with a live band in this Tiny Desk quarantine concert, part of our Black History Month celebration.
Milford Graves, Visionary Drummer Who Mapped The Music Of The Heart, Dead At 79
Graves spent a lifetime exploring the fundamental rhythms of life – human or otherwise – and spreading those lessons, over nearly four decades, to his students.
Carnival Was Cancelled, But The Soca Hits Kept Coming
Listen to a playlist of dance music designed to bring Trinidad and Tobago's annual party to your living room.
Fania Records Co-Founder Johnny Pacheco Dies At 85
Pacheco was a prolific songwriter and musical arranger whose work helped fuel the careers of Celia Cruz and Ruben Blades.
A Rare Piano That Escaped The Holocaust Gets Restored To Glory
The innovative Ibach baby grand, brought from Germany in the 1930s by a Jewish family fleeing the Nazis, sat unplayable for decades. That's about to change, thanks to the family's grandchildren.
Music Therapy Brings Solace To COVID-19 Patients And Healers
Even when forced online by the pandemic, music therapy sessions continue to help patients in some ways talk therapy can't. "Music is this portal," says one therapist and COVID-19 long-hauler.
Remembering Flory Jagoda, Who Preserved Sephardic Jewish Music And Language
Born in Sarajevo, Flory Jagoda celebrated the music and language of her ancestors who had been expelled from Spain in 1492. She died Jan. 29 at age 97.
Chick Corea, Jazz Fusion Pioneer, Has Died Of Cancer At 79
The wide-ranging keyboardist, composer and bandleader died Feb. 9 of cancer. He was one of the fathers of jazz fusion, with his work spanning from acoustic jazz to his own interpretations of Mozart.
'Just The Two Of Us' Songwriter Found His Sound In Solitude
William Salter, who co-wrote the popular love song, told his granddaughter that the radio kept him company during a lonely childhood. When he later found the bass, he said, "I found myself."