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First Night Boston, Berklee College of Music, and WGBH 89.7 present Anat Cohen, performing at the Berklee Performance Center on New Year's Eve, Thursday, December 31, kicking off NPR's annual worldwide broadcast, Toast of the Nation.

Patrick Jarenwattananon at A Blog Supreme has thrown down the gauntlet once again, this time asking which jazz albums should be included in a list of the decade's finest.

Over the past few months, contributors to NPR Music have been combing their collections, reading listener nominations and putting together a list of the Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings .

All Songs Considered 's list of the 50 most important recordings of the decade begins with composer John Adams and runs through Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

You might not be familiar with the award-winning New York saxophonist David Binney, but I can assure you that his description of the Ninja Funk Orchestra, which follows, is as apt as any.

With a new album in tow, the Bad Plus return to the Horse. If the Coen Brothers put together a jazz trio, perhaps it would be like this, the comic and the dramatic rolled together.

Ticket sales for this year's festival were up 35% on last year. Over 1,000 musicians from some 29 countries are playing at over 80 venues around the city in the event, which is now ranked as being in the top three jazz festivals in Europe.

Choreographer James Sewell has found kindred spirits in the audacious indie-jazz collective the Bad Plus.

This week, our video spotlight shines on The Wee Trio , who will be in St. Louis next week to perform Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17 at Jazz at the Bistro .

Hard to believe it's been 7 years since Steve Lehman graduated from Wesleyan but not surprising when one sees how busy he's been.

The Walker Art Center has received a $97,900 Jazz.NEXT grant from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation .

This month, the world's most famous jazz club celebrates five decades of playing host to an extraordinary procession of musical legends Happy half-century ... Ronnie Scott's jazz club.

Jazz films are rare, and series more so, except for the much-maligned "Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns," a 19-hour opus that first aired on public television in January 2001.

SEPTEMBER SONGS: Wea TMve just been blessed with a deceptively rich feast of jazz in the region.

New York-based pianist George Colligan has been prolific since his 1996 debut, Activism , releasing nineteen CDs as a leader.

Wynton Marsalis plays with the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra on main stage at the Monterey Jazz Festival in Monterey, Calif.

September 21, 2009 from WBGO - Here's a good story about the amount of respect drummer Billy Hart receives.

Welcome to Look Who's Been To Music School night at the Monterey Jazz Festival , in which otherwise capable musicians decide the priority du jour is demonstrate their mastery of alternative composition techniques.

Ignore the fact that pianist Ted Kooshian regularly covers cartoon and TV music in his quartet and what's left is an appreciation for music that swings exceptionally hard, and a passion for each tune that is anything but "animated." Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet has produced its second volume of music, Underdog And Other Stories... , following ...

Patrick Jarenwattananon, proprietor of NPR's A Blog Supreme has asked an interesting questio n of his readers: name five albums you would recommend to somebody looking to get into modern jazz.