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Will Anderson, Peter Anderson, Patrick Bartley and Janelle Reichman perform at Jazz at Lincoln Center in tribute to Benny Goodman.

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The Legacy Of The Benny Goodman Quartet

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The small group that made a bespectacled white clarinetist a star happened to be of jazz's first racially integrated bands. Wendell Pierce and four young clarinetists tell the story live on stage.

The Legacy Of The Benny Goodman Quartet
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Carlos Henriquez in The Bronx.

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Carlos Henriquez: The Bronx Pyramid

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The bassist spends a lot of time in midtown Manhattan for his day job with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. But his roots, and the music he's made about them, are uptown.

Carlos Henriquez: The Bronx Pyramid
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Cyrille Aimée's new album is Let's Get Lost.

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3 Artists From Abroad, For International Jazz Day

Bassist and Jazz Night In America host Christian McBride spotlights a vocalist from France, a drummer from Mexico and a trumpet-playing South African legend.

3 Artists From Abroad, For International Jazz Day
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Jymie Merritt.

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Jymie Merritt: The Beat Goes Deep

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The Philadelphia bassist, soon to be 90, played with Blakey, Morgan and Roach. But in all that, he also developed his own rhythmic and harmonic concept. Appropriately, it's called Forerunner.

Jymie Merritt: The Beat Goes Deep
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Ibrahim Maalouf Plays Umm Kulthum

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Born in Lebanon and raised in France, trained in both Western classical and traditional Arabic music, the trumpeter has always bridged worlds. He puts a jazz spin on the Arab world's most famous star.

Ibrahim Maalouf Plays Umm Kulthum
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L-R: Archie Shepp, Gary Burton, Wendy Oxenhorn, Pharoah Sanders.

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The 2016 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert

Gary Burton, Wendy Oxenhorn, Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp make up the newest class of Jazz Masters — the highest honor the U.S. gives to a jazz musician or advocate.

Danilo Pérez performs with Berklee students at the Panama Jazz Festival.

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Danilo Pérez: A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama

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For the pianist and founder, the Panama Jazz Festival is much more than a bunch of concerts in his hometown. It's an exhibition of how music can change a neighborhood, a political climate or a life.

Danilo Pérez: A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama
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Snarky Puppy performs live in Dallas, Texas.

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Snarky Puppy: 'Music For The Brain And Booty'

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The instrumental band's deep, beyond-category grooves just earned a second Grammy Award. But as a live show in Dallas reveals, its sound is inseparable from church — and the state of Texas.

Snarky Puppy: 'Music For The Brain And Booty'
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Eric Lewis performs at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

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ELEW, Veal And Tain

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Pianist Eric Lewis did a turn in the crossover celebrity spotlight with his "rockjazz" method. But he pledges allegiance to "the jazz republic" in a new trio with Reginald Veal and Jeff Watts.

The ELEW Trio With Veal And Tain
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