All Things Considered

Melissa Block and Robert Siegel

In-depth reporting and transformed the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Every weekday, hear two hours of breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special - sometimes quirky - features.Melissa Block and Robert Siegel

Genre:

News/Talk

Composer ID:

5182a94be1c876c6464716f9|5182a93be1c876c6464716bd

Tadd Dameron, A Jazz Master With A 'Lyrical Grace'

Next image Previous image

Credit William Gottlieb / Library of Congress

Tadd Dameron (smiling at center) was an important figure in American jazz and bebop. He is shown here with Fats Navarro on trumpet, and Charlie Rouse and Ernie Henry on saxophone.

Credit William Gottlieb / Library of Congress via Flickr

Dameron was a talented composer, pianist and arranger, as well as a mentor to a generation of musicians. His work was profoundly influential, although over the decades he has faded into obscurity.

Credit Paul Baxter / Courtesy Paul Combs

Paul Combs is a jazz musician, composer and arranger, as well as an educator and author.

By Tom Vitale

Originally published on Sun March 10, 2013 5:30 am

Listen

In the 1940s and '50s, Tadd Dameron worked with everyone who was anyone in jazz, from Miles Davis to Artie Shaw, Count Basie to John Coltrane. Everything Dameron touched had one thing in common, says Paul Combs, author of Dameronia: The Life and Work of Tadd Dameron.

"A penchant for lyricism," Combs says. "Almost everything that he writes has a very lyrical grace to it."

5:00 pm

Fri March 8, 2013

Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element — In A Machine

Credit Sami Ansari / Courtesy of the artist

Dave Grohl reunited with his old friend Butch Vig (at console), the producer of Nirvana's Nevermind, for the making of Sound City: Real to Reel.

Originally published on Fri March 8, 2013 5:09 pm

Listen

4:59 pm

Fri March 8, 2013

Death Cafes Breathe Life Into Conversations About Dying

Credit iStockphoto.com

Originally published on Tue March 12, 2013 12:20 pm

Listen

We live knowing that everything dies. Like the sun, it's a fact of life. And like the sun, we tend not to look right at it. Unless you've experienced a recent death, it's probably not something you discuss. But a new movement is trying to change that, with a serving of tea and cake.

The fear of death haunts us like nothing else. And it makes sense. All other fears — such as public speaking, centipedes and heights — pale in comparison. So we don't really talk about it.

4:16 pm

Fri March 8, 2013

Can You Make Sad Songs Sound Happy (And Vice-Versa)?

Credit Album cover

Michael Stipe broods on the cover of R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" single. Earlier this year, a remarkably cheery-sounding major-key version of the song appeared online.

By NPR Staff

Originally published on Fri March 8, 2013 6:15 pm

Listen

3:43 pm

Fri March 8, 2013

In Chicago, Dueling Ads Over The Meaning Of 'Jihad'

Originally published on Fri March 8, 2013 5:03 pm

Listen

There is an advertising battle going on over the Arabic term jihad. In Chicago, a group has launched a bus and subway ad campaign meant to reclaim the term jihad from another series of ads that presents jihadists as violent.

All Things Considered		RSS
All Content	closeNews podcasts Use iTunes Use a different player	RSS
View all podcasts & RSS feeds

Podcasts & RSS Feeds

All Things Considered

Pages

Jazz

2:22 pm

Sat March 9, 2013