Nate Chinen
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Don't be shocked by the 23-year-old jazz singer's breakneck rise from precocious college student to best new artist Grammy nominee. In those few years, she's been building three careers at once. -
At this year's awards on Sunday night, Beyoncé could become the artist with the most Grammys ever. She could also go down in history as the most snubbed.
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Jazz artist Jason Moran revisits the deep influence of Black composer and bandleader James Reese Europe, best known for serving with the Harlem Hellfighters in World War I.
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After a year defined by emergence and creative combination, our critics zoom in on their own listening to choose one inescapable album and song each.
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WRTI editorial director Nate Chinen returned to live music with fervor this year — and one artist in particular, the young saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, emerged as a constant presence.
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Nate Chinen, editorial director for jazz and classical public radio station WRTI, shares some of his favorite music of the year.
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Musician Ahmad Jamal has been a major jazz figure since the 1950s. Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse is a set of never-before-released recordings of Jamal in his prime.
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A new documentary explores Armstrong's experience as a Black American musician coming of age right along with the 20th century.
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Hard to define, for one thing. But in our disorienting digital age, these image-savvy, genre-fluid, proficient yet irreverent artists can seem like the only ones who've gleefully cracked the code.
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Sanders, revered as one of the avant-garde's greatest tenor saxophonists, was a member of John Coltrane's final quartet. His expressive playing laid a path for generations of musicians.
