Adrian Younge

Jazz

Six jazz innovators reshape the music on varied new releases

Abe Beeson

Discover four innovative records from artists including Thundercat and Adrian Younge that stretch the definition of jazz for a new generation of listeners.

Jazz

Radical soul singer Bilal and his jazz connections

Justus Sanchez

The multi-faceted singer was on track to become a full-fledged jazz singer until his early commercial success in the 2000s neo-soul movement.

In this photo taken Saturday, April 8, 2017, pioneering African drummer Tony Allen, whose influential career spanned decades and continents, plays in concert with Senegalese musician Cheikh Lo in Dakar, Senegal. Tony Allen, the driver of the Afrobeat sound who formed a partnership with guitarist and composer Fela Kuti, died of aortic failure at the Pompidou Hospital in Paris aged 79 on April 30, 2020.

Jazz

New music from the late master of Afrobeat, drummer Tony Allen

Abe Beeson

Recorded in 2018 with composer/arranger Adrian Younge, the late drummer Tony Allen releases a new album this year.

Adrian Younge

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