Take Five

As WBGO looks ahead to our 2023 trip to South Africa, here are five new tracks by South African jazz artists who are pushing the art form forward.

Groove is paramount in the latest installment of Take Five, featuring new tracks by The Comet is Coming, James Brandon Lewis, Louis Cole, Snarky Puppy, and Butcher Brown.

A lot of great music is ahead this weekend at the Newport Jazz Festival, and WBGO can help get you there. Meanwhile, here are five acts to get excited about.

Along with the all-star band formerly known as the Joshua Redman Quartet, this Take Five boasts two killer piano-and-drum duos, a tasty organ quartet, and a hermetic studio production.

Hear the first taste of some highly anticipated albums by drummers Makaya McCraven and Mark Guiliana, guitarist Julian Lage, and cornetist Kirk Knuffke — along with a recent solo drop by pianist Marta Warelis.

This week's Take Five is full of musical hat-tips, from Moor Mother, Bennie Maupin and Adam Rudolph, Grant Stewart, Anteloper, and Billy Mohler.

Two Cuban pianists, two Los Angeles scene stalwarts, and a hard-bop veteran: such is the musical abundance in this week's Take Five.

Archie Shepp, the fearless saxophonist, composer, playwright and poet, was born on May 24, 1937. As he turns 85, we honor his recorded legacy with a special edition of Take Five.

This week's Take Five features new music by Shabaka Hutchings, Pasquale Grasso, Florian Hoefner, ChimyTina, and Vieux Farqua Touré.