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New Orleans musicians share their favorite Christmas songs, from bounce to blues

Rosemary Westwood from member station WWNO asked a few of New Orlean's favorite musicians about the songs they like to listen to around Christmas.

FILE - In this Sunday, May 3, 2015 file photo, Trombone Shorty reacts to the crowd as he closes out the final set of the 2015 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans. The 47th annual festival features top artists covering many genres of music from jazz to rock to Zydeco to rap to pop to R&B and gospel. The gates to the Fair Grounds Race Track, where the festival is held, open at 11 a.m. The music on 11 stages starts shortly thereafter. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Find jazz festivals on six continents this summer

As the weather heats up, explore some of the to jazz festivals worldwide featuring stars like Herbie Hancock and Esperanza Spalding.

Improvising cellist Jacob Szekely performing at the KNKX Studios in 2018.

With his electric jazz, Jacob Szekely brings the cello into the future

From Miles Davis influences to custom-built pedals, jazz cellist Jacob Szekely is pushing the cello beyond its traditional 300-year history.

Visitors watching the earth at the exhibition "The Fragile Paradise" at the Gasometer in Oberhausen, Germany, Tuesday, May 23, 2023.

Mapping Jazz24's global community of jazz-lovers

From Seattle, Wash., to Africa and beyond, explore our map to see where your fellow jazz lovers are tuning in from.

Trumpeter Keyon Harrold backstage before the Miles Davis centennial concert at Carnegie Hall.

Keyon Harrold celebrates 100 years of Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall

To mark the occasion of Miles Davis' centennial, trumpeter Keyon Harrold put on a concert at Carnegie Hall and shared a candid conversation about the legend with Christian McBride.

Lara Downes (left) and Salamishah Tillet met at the childhood home of Nina Simone, in Tryon, N.C.

At Nina Simone's childhood home, in search of 'How It Would Feel to Be Free'

Pianist Lara Downes and Pulitzer-winning author Salamishah Tillet discuss Nina Simone and one of her best-known songs at her lovingly restored birthplace in Tryon, N.C.

Billie Holiday has become a mythic presence in absentia.

Billie Holiday: A Singer Beyond Our Understanding

Most artists belong to their times. But Holiday, born 100 years ago Tuesday, fits in the present.

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