These artists share similar musical characteristics to Harmonica Fats.

It’s hard to copy that as a harmonica player.” Dylan performs during Farm Aid at Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center on Sept. 23, 2023 in Noblesville, Indiana. Getty Images Chalamet mastered ...

DATELINE WASHINGTON, DC Hello and Happy New Year to one and all. Our 8th Annual Ella Fitzgerald Competition has launched, and we welcome registrants between now and the end of January. Over the past ...

Alfonso Ponticelli brings flamenco and gypsy jazz to SPACE on Jan. 3. The beginning of a new year is a quiet time for live music. I guess everyone is ...

she says she knew just one jazz song. That jazz song, and a hymn, got her through the audition in college, and now Joy is selling out concerts across the U.S. and Europe. "I never wanted to regret ...

January 13, 2025 • The Tiny Desk Contest is NPR Music's annual search for the next great undiscovered artist.

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The youngest of nine children, he was first drawn to jazz when helping out in his brother’s music store when he was about ten years old. He briefly flirted with playing the alto sax, but felt a ...

December 31, 2024 • NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich turns us on to lesser known corners of music from 2024: blooming drone-folk, richly textured jazz, Somali garage-rock, medieval metal and a ...

The musical bedrock of the song is its tense, swaggering, stop-start monolithic guitar riff (doubled by Little Walter’s plaintive harmonica ... melds blues with jazz-infused funk.

Former President Jimmy Carter's close friends included the likes of Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and the Allman brothers.

Seriously, this song is a love letter to Christmas in all the best ways. Oh, and there’s a harmonica solo! Can’t go wrong with one of those. No, not the one you’re thinking of. We’ll get ...