Oscar nominee and six-time Grammy-winner trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard celebrates the brilliance of jazz legend Wayne Shorter with the acclaimed Absence, based on his album of the same name. He is joined by his young band of musical pioneers, the The E-Collective, and the double Grammy-winning Turtle Island String Quartet, who since their inception in 1985, […]

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Elvin Bishop and Grammy-winning harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite are fellow blues travelers and living blues giants. The two history-making musicians—both Blues Hall of Famers—have over 100 years of professional musicianship between them. Performing music from their recent release, 100 Years Of Blues, their first-ever duo project represents blues […]

Calexico’s Joey Burns and John Convertino return with their luminous 10th studio album, El Mirador; a hopeful beacon of rock, bluesy ruminations and Latin American sounds. Convertino, and Burns channeled cherished memories of Southwestern landscapes and joyful barrio melting pots into an evocative love letter to the desert borderlands that nourished them for over 20 years. Burns […]

Grammy-nominated clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen debuts her brand-new group – the Anat Cohen Quartetinho – featuring Anat on clarinet and bass clarinet, Vitor Gonçalves on accordion and piano, Tal Mashiach on bass and 7-string guitar, and James Shipp on percussion, vibraphone and electronics. Hailing from Israel, the U.S. and Brazil, the members of Quaretinho explore a […]

The Lone Bellow burst onto the scene with their self-titled debut in 2013. The Nashville-based trio quickly became known for their transcendent harmonies, serious musicianship and raucous live performance —creating what NPR calls, ‘earnest and magnetic folk-pop built to shake the rafters.’ In 2015, the band released Then Came The Morning, produced by The National’s […]

Up-and-coming bebop and traditional swing vocalist Veronica Swift has already developed an impressive repertoire, performing with a host of jazz luminaries, including trumpeters Wynton Marsalis and Chris Botti, and pianist Benny Green and Michael Feinstein. A winner of the 2015 Thelonious Monk International Vocal Competition, Swift’s new album, This Bitter Earth, finds the artist looking […]

Latin Grammy-winning all-female mariachi group Flor de Toloache has earned acclaim for their based recent performances Coachella and on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts series, introducing them to a new, international audience. Named for the delirium-inducing Mexican flower used as a love potion for generations, the band is a truly global ensemble, with musicians hailing from […]

Fresh off her triumphant performance as Miriam Makeba in the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis’ production of Dreaming Zenzile, vocalist, composer and writer Somi Kakoma, the daughter of Rwandan and Ugandan immigrants, discovered her musical identity traversing the cultural bridge between America and Africa. That sense of discovery continues to guide a career in which […]