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Vocalist Thana Alexa and drummer Antonio Sanchez perform while quarantined in their home studio in Queens

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Thana Alexa And Antonio Sanchez: Alone Together Duets

8:00am May 08, 2020

Vocalist Thana Alexa and drummer Antonio Sánchez perform "ONA" while quarantined in their home studio in Queens, N.Y., for Jazz Night in America's Alone Together Duets series.

Bob Dylan's new album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, comes out June 19.

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Bob Dylan Announces New Album 'Rough And Rowdy Ways'

7:22am May 08, 2020

by Lauren Onkey

Dylan's first album of original songs in eight years comes out June 19. Hear the bluesy "False Prophet" now.

The artist Ambrose Akinmusire will release on the tender spot of every calloused moment on Blue Note this June 5.

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Ambrose Akinmusire's New Album Is A Circle In Time, Right Back To His First Jazz Show

6:30am May 08, 2020

by Nate Chinen

The lauded trumpeter was attending eighth grade in Oakland when he saw a certain pillar of the avant-garde play live. Some 25 years later, the connection between then and now is stronger than ever.

Georgia Anne Muldrow was Robin Dann's choice on the last episode of Play It Forward. Muldrow moves the chain of gratitude along to saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin.

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Play It Forward: Georgia Anne Muldrow On Building Worlds Through Music

8:21pm May 07, 2020

In the fourth episode of Play It Forward, Ari Shapiro speaks with R&B polymath Georgia Anne Muldrow about how music has served her during the pandemic and the sprawling soul-jazz of Lakecia Benjamin.

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MILCK: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

1:35pm May 07, 2020

by Robin Hilton

MILCK performs two recent singles, along with an unreleased track in a deeply moving Tiny Desk set from her home in Los Angeles.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performs 'Portraits of America: A Jazz Story.'

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Jazz And Art Take Center Stage To Form 'Portraits Of America'

1:17pm May 07, 2020

Let's go to the museum with our ears. Members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis explain their work inspired by the collection at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Florian Schneider, photographed in 1975.

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How Florian Schneider And Kraftwerk Created Pop's Future

1:07pm May 07, 2020

by Simon Reynolds

Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter met while studying piano and flute at university in Germany. Before too long, they'd redrawn the entire outline of pop music for the late 20th century.

Darling Din entered the 2020 Tiny Desk Contest with the song "Velvet."

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The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 7

12:01pm May 07, 2020

The 2020 Tiny Desk Contest closed for entries on April 27. As our judges comb through entries to find a winner, we're sharing some of the best entries we saw in the Contest's final weeks.

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Teddy Thompson On Making Music To Send As Gifts During The Pandemic

11:34am May 07, 2020

by Teddy Thompson

In Our Daily Breather, we ask writers and artists to recommend ways to find calm in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. Teddy Thompson has been sending personalized videos to friends and fans.

A moment from the animated video for "Pizza Feet," a song from Go Banana Go!'s debut children's album, Hi-YA!

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Go Banana Go!: Music For Stir-Crazy Kids (And Parents) In Quarantine

6:30am May 07, 2020

by Mandalit del Barco

The duo of a veteran producer and a former physics professor, the children's band was inspired to make its debut album by the nonsense songs sung in the members' own households.

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