This year, NPR Music is celebrating Black Music Month with an array of brand new Tiny Desk concerts — both from home and from behind our beloved Desk. Together, these artists represent the past, present and future of Black music. This month of carefully curated shows is a celebration of Black artists expressing themselves in ways we've never seen before, and of the Tiny Desk's unique way of showcasing that talent.

Bobby Carter | June 16, 2022
Larry June is the indie-rap hustle personified. His graduation from the streets has made way for his true purpose in rhyme: healthy living. The organic fruits and juices on the table in this performance indicate the lifestyle fervently pushed in his music. The two cell phones sitting beside him remind us that business is booming. He starts with a few signature adlibs before imploring, "Don't check me / Check the air quality." This lavish living room setting, with the Los Angeles night sky as a backdrop, sets the proper mood for Larry June's Tiny Desk (home) concert.

The Bay Area emcee has been at this for a while, adopting the independent approach like many before him: saturating the market with product and profiting from shows and merch. While much of the music industry stumbled and stalled during the uncertainty of 2020, Larry put up numbers, releasing half a dozen projects from his home studio. Here, he's able to comfortably sit back in the laid-back tone we're used to hearing on his records and not the dialed-up mood of his stage show. His band, The NME, replays and beefs up the sample on 2020's "Just me & you," plus songs from 2019's Out The Trunk and Early Bird.

In theory, a motivational rapper rapping about bike rides, hikes and investments would be deemed shtick in 2022 — yet he's here, authentic and refreshing. Good job, Larry.

SET LIST
"SLS 30 Days"
"Just me & you"
"Dear, Snow"
"Let's Drive To Vegas"

MUSICIANS
Larry June: vocals
Isaac Oshuntola: bass
Eddie Hamilton: guitar
Jarrett Freeman: keys
Jack Monk: guitar
Brandon Stennett: drums

CREDITS
Producer: Marco Alexander, Andrew Min
Video Assistant: Kian Wang
Recording Engineer: Migui Maloles
Assistant Recording Engineer: Joshua "Jay Que" Queen
Mixed by: Migui Maloles, Todd Cooper

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bobby Carter
Video Producer: Michael Zamora
Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin
Animation: Kaz Fantone
Tiny Production Team: Bob Boilen, Kara Frame, Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern, Ashley Pointer
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

#NPRMusic #TinyDesk #LarryJune

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.

Bobby Carter | June 16, 2021
From a rustic and retro-looking cabin on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, the band Men I Trust seized the essence of the Tiny Desk almost to a tee. The controlled, yet layered four-song set, bookended by tracks from 2019's Oncle Jazz would almost certainly make for a plug-and-play situation had it been behind Bob Boilen's desk.

Men I Trust was initially the duo of high school friends Dragos Chiriac and Jessy Caron, before adding vocalist Emma Proulx in 2015 and recording the group's debut album, Headroom. (They expanded to a quintet for this performance, with Cedric Martel handling bass and Eric Maillet on drums.) The song "Humming Man," performed here, was its first official single as a trio and they never looked back from there. The band's style sways between rubbery upbeat electro-pop and the muddy pace evident on last year's "Lucky Sue," but generally hits that sweet spot for anybody looking to be cradled and carried by a vibe-y groove. The overdubs and reverb on Emma's vocals are stripped away here, leaving a deceptively endearing quality to her voice. The band told NPR that this set was one of its first times playing together after a long hiatus due to the COVID-19 lockdown. "We reunited at the cabin, jammed and recorded our session," the members said via email. "We strived to capture the intimacy and coziness on sound and image. We hope you'll enjoy it!"

SET LIST
"Show Me How"
"Lucky Sue"
"Humming Man"
"All Night"

MUSICIANS
Emma Proulx: vocals, guitar
Jessy Caron: guitar
Dragos Chiriac: keyboard
Cedric Martel: bass
Eric Maillet: drums

CREDITS
Video and Audio: Men I Trust

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bobby Carter
Video Producer: Maia Stern
Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin
Tiny Production Team: Bob Boilen, Kara Frame, Gabrielle Pierre
Executive Producer: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

#nprmusic #tinydesk #menitrust

Nov. 19, 2018 | Sidney Madden -- When dvsn visited NPR for this Tiny Desk concert, it reminded me of the first time I saw them two years ago in New York City. They decided to wash the desk in vibrant blue, purple and orange lighting, brought in by dvsn's team to make the space feel like a concert hall. And while the audience at NPR was almost as densely packed as that NYC venue, it felt much like my live introduction to the group — grandiose in presentation, but at the same time, deliberately intimate in delivery.

With a four-piece band and three pristine backup vocalists for support, singer Daniel Daley flexed his falsetto pipes and a shiny gold grill, running through a sampler of fan-favorites about breaking up, making up and trying to move on. The short-and-sweet set is an example of the kind of audible acrobatics you don't often hear at contemporary R&B shows anymore.

Though it's easy to mistake dvsn as simply the stage moniker of Daley, the act is really a duo comprised of the singer and Grammy Award-winning producer Nineteen85, the (almost) secret weapon behind the boards. Together, the Toronto-based duo has released two albums so far — 2016's Sept. 5th and 2017's Morning After. And on the day of the Tiny Desk concert, while Daley gleamed in the spotlight behind dark shades, Nineteen85 hung back in the audience to, as always, play the role of humble maestro.

Set List
"Too Deep"
"Body Smile"
"Mood"

Credits
Producers: Sidney Madden, Morgan Noelle Smith; Creative Director: Bob Boilen; Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Videographers: Morgan Noelle Smith, Kaylee Domzalski, Bronson Arcuri, Beck Harlan; Editor: Kaylee Domzalski; Production Assistant: Brie Martin; Photo: Cameron Pollack/NPR

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⁣The beauty of South Africa shines through in the new video for Teni’s Maitama collaboration which features Mayorkun, Costa Titch and Ch’cco.

Directed by Darion, the video shows Teni being colorful and fun.
Mayorkun's scene was shot by Dessy Gray in Atlanta, USA.

Damon Dash Finally Reveals Disturbing Truth About Aaliyah’s Death

Even though it's been two decades, the hurt from Aaliyah’s death still stings so much. Compared to the rest of the R&B scene, there are certain artists who wouldn’t even exist if she hadn’t paved the way for them back in the early ‘00s - afterall she is remembered as the “princess of R&B”. Now that time has passed though, Damon Dash has started to come forward to reveal some shocking details about Aaliyah’s death.

You gotta understand that towards the end of her life, Dame and Aaliyah were almost inseparable, almost like they were a married couple without actually tying the knot. Now that some time has passed since her passing, Dame seems to be more infuriated about what led up to her plane crashing than her actually not being here anymore.

#damondash #aaliyah #rizzle

Poochie terrorized the streets of LA from the 80s to the early 2000s. He’s believed to be responsible for the death of Biggie Smalls. #pirus #gang #biggiesmalls

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.

Ann Powers | February 2, 2022
Tori Amos' Tiny Desk (home) concert debut takes place in what looks like close quarters. The singer-songwriter whose music has served as a beacon for so many listeners during her thirty-year career sits at her beloved Bosendorfer piano with a star-embellished Wurlitzer at her back. On a nearby shelf is a stack of books; one is Suzanne Simard's classic of forest ecology, Finding the Mother Tree. As Amos begins "Baker Baker," a fan favorite from her 1994 album Under the Pink, her bell-like voice fills the room. It's easy to imagine she's in a lighthouse on the cliffs of Cornwall instead of the state-of-the-art home studio where her husband, engineer Mark Hawley, ensures that the mix will be perfect. This three-song performance shows Amos both alone and reaching out, casting sonic beams to guide us in the dark.

The other two songs Amos offers are from her characteristically fearless, self-interrogating, soul-integrating 2021 album Ocean to Ocean. Her renditions of the title track and "29 Years" are magnetic, but what really makes this set a treat is the commentary she shares before each song. Talking about the growing she's done during lockdown – learning about the climate crisis, confronting her own long-buried trauma – Amos reveals why she remains so beloved. She still knows how to make the most private and even inchoate feelings accessible. Hers is a lighthouse that welcomes the traveler in for a heart-to-heart exchange.

SET LIST
"Baker Baker"
"Ocean to Ocean"
"29 Years"

MUSICIANS
Tori Amos: vocals, keyboard

CREDITS
Video: Dave Meyers
Audio: Mark Hawley
Assistant Engineer: Adam Spry
Recorded at Martian Engineering, Cornwall UK

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bob Boilen
Video Producer: Maia Stern
Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin
Tiny Production Team: Bobby Carter, Kara Frame, Joshua Bryant, Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis
Executive Producer: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

#toriamos #nprmusic #tinydesk

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Soprano Saxophone - John Coltrane
Piano - Mccoy Tyner
Bass - Jimmy Garrison
Drum - Elvin Jones

Live in Comblain-La-Tour (Belgium) on August 1

Personnel:
Danny Bank – bass clarinet
Bill Barber – tuba
John Barrows – French horn
Albert Block – flute
James Buffington – French horn
Eddie Caine – flute
Paul Chambers – bass
Earl Chapin – French horn
Jimmy Cobb – drums
Johnny Coles – trumpet
Miles Davis – trumpet, flugelhorn
Gil Evans – arranger, conductor
Harold Feldman – clarinet, flute, oboe
Bernie Glow – trumpet
Dick Hixon – trombone
Elvin Jones – percussion
Taft Jordan – trumpet
Jack Knitzer – bassoon
Jose Mangual – percussion
Jimmy McAllister – tuba
Tony Miranda – French horn
Louis Mucci – trumpet
Romeo Penque – oboe
Janet Putnam – harp
Frank Rehak – trombone
Ernie Royal – trumpet
Joe Singer – French horn

Recorded: November 15 & 20 1959 and March 10, 1960

Studio: Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City

Producer: Teo Macero, Irving Townsend


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A2 Will O' The Wisp (From "El Amor Brujo") 16:23
B1 The Pan Piper 20:15
B2 Saeta 24:14
B3 Solea 29:19




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May 10th 2015, Pookie Loc became collateral damage between one of the most prolific hip-hop beefs in the 2000s between Atlanta legends, Radric Davis aka Gucci Mane and Jay Wayne Jenkins aka Young Jeezy

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Wednesday November 17th 2021, Memphis would change forever. It was the day an icon in the city and a legend in the music industry was lost

This year, NPR Music is celebrating Black Music Month with an array of brand new Tiny Desk concerts — both from home and from behind our beloved Desk. Together, these artists represent the past, present and future of Black music. This month of carefully curated shows is a celebration of Black artists expressing themselves in ways we've never seen before, and of the Tiny Desk's unique way of showcasing that talent.

Mitra I. Arthur | June 24, 2022
It's only right to think "New Monica!" when her Tiny Desk (home) concert begins. Surrounded by candlelight, dressed in pink, Monica stands ready to deliver a vibrant vocal masterclass.

With her rich alto, Monica broke onto the music landscape in 1995 with her debut album, Miss Thang. In her class of '90s artists, the singer brought a mature sound, yet still tempered by youth, that made her relatable to audiences of any age who were growing into their own. Monica's albums are grounded in the here and now, the ups and the downs of life and love. For fans, she feels like a longtime friend to root for, not only for her talent, but because her realness is valued — an energy she brings to this performance.

Here Monica and her musicians strip down 2003's "So Gone," allowing a mellow, acoustic guitar to shine alongside the vocals. She shows us that when it comes to any #SoGoneChallenges, the viral challenge that had artists putting their own spin on the song, her original still reigns supreme. She also gives us a teaser of her upcoming single, the collaboration with Ty Dolla $ign "Friends," on which Monica presents a tale of a relationship that doesn't require understanding from anyone on the outside, her soaring and acrobatic voice bending over a declaration of love. And when Monica revisits singles from her debut album, "Why I Love You So Much" and "Before You Walk Out of My Life," in her Tiny Desk (home) concert they resonate on a different, and perhaps deeper, level now.

SET LIST
"Angel of Mine"
"Love All Over Me"
"Why I Love You So Much"
"So Gone"
"Friends"
"Before You Walk Out of My Life"

MUSICIANS
Monica: vocals
Priestly Johnson: vocals
Ashley Minnieweather: vocals
Alexis McKinnon: vocals
Herman "P-Nut" Johnson: drums
Ruben Royster: bass
Adrian Forbes: keys
Dave Maiorino: guitar

CREDITS
Executive Producers: Monica, Melinda Dancil
Associate Producer: Maurio Jackson
Production Coordinator: Rolanje Armstead
Creative Director: Daniel "Baby Yu" Nakayama
Set Designer: Akeem Clayton Designs
Live Audio/Recording Engineer: Joseph Spencer III
Live Audio/Recording Engineer: Tech: Ricky William Horton
Director: JT Colston
Director Of Photography: Sam Aldrich
Digital Photography: Cyndi Brown
Camera Operator: Tara Diiorio

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bobby Carter
Video Producer: Michael Zamora
Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin
Animator: Kaz Fantone
Tiny Production Team: Bob Boilen, Kara Frame, Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern, Ashley Pointer
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

#tinydesk #monica #BMM