A bit of a spoiler here: At the end of Meshell Ndegeocello’s new album, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin, a lone male voice repeats variations of several short phrases, some looped over each ...

Meshell Ndegeocello is the inaugural winner of Best Alternative Jazz Album at the 2024 Grammys. The Omnichord Real Book was nominated alongside Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily’s Love in ...

It's also her first album on the legendary Blue Note label, featuring some well-established heavyweights and rising stars in the jazz world like Jason Moran, Mark Guiliana, Ambrose Akinmusire, Joel ...

Meshell Ndegeocello has made a career as a bassist, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. She's been performing professionally for over thirty years now and has recorded albums spanning folk, rap, rock, ...

Black Music Month has brought a parade of Black legends to the Tiny Desk here at NPR headquarters. Each artist plays a few songs for a video that gets posted to nprmusic.org. Well, when Grammy-winning ...

It goes on for a few minutes. You could imagine it going forever, like the “inner groove” at the end of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” It stays in the mind, regardless. “That’s my brother, ...