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The Marketplace Quiz

Esperanza Spalding takes the Marketplace Quiz

by Raghu Manavalan
Jun 3, 2016
The jazz musician tells us about her Oregon upbringing and why she was a terrible 9-to-5 employee.
Performer Esperanza Spalding speaks during 'A Celebration of Song: In Performance at the White House Student Workshop."
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Quincy Jones on Clark Terry, a godfather of jazz

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Oct 2, 2014
Terry was known for integrating "The Tonight Show" Band back in 1960, and taught jazz to Miles Davis, Winton Marsalis and Quincy Jones.
Justin Kauflin and Clark Terry in "Keep on Keepin' On."
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Funding an album in a jazz-improv kind of way

by David Brancaccio
May 1, 2014
Jazz musician Lauren Kinhan decided to go online to crowdsource the money for her newly released solo album.
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In New Orleans, learning music by watching the feet

by David Weinberg
Feb 10, 2014
An app to helps others learn music.
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The Punchline

Covering 'the Rainbow'

by Katharine Crnko
Feb 11, 2011
According to the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment of the Arts , no song better defines the 20th century than ...
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