May 15, 2012 | NPR · In one of his final performances, Armstrong used "Hello Dolly" to convey the joy of being alive.
May 14, 2012 | NPR · A professor of music writes about how a proliferation of teaching jazz hasn't made it more popular.
May 12, 2012 | NPR · The Cuban trumpeter first met Dizzy Gillespie in 1977, when the American jazzman came to Havana to play a concert. It was the start of a friendship that would last until Gillespie's death in 1993.
May 11, 2012 | NPR · "Cookie cutter" students, young musicians in New York and the history of jazz in India.
May 11, 2012 | NPR · In Boston, three professors and musical virtuosos meet weekly to give concerts of free improvisation — and have for four decades. One fan tells us about how she saw The Fringe so many times, the manager of the club finally offered her a job tending bar.