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Catch a local entry in NPR's 2021 Tiny Desk Contest. The Wake Singers hail from Red Shirt Table, SD, and entered this year's contest with their original song “Mirrors Over Skies.“

Submissions accepted through June 7, 10:59pm CT at NPR.org/tinydeskcontest 

Jazz Nightly host Karl Gehrke remembers jazz legends and other musicians who have died of complications from COVID-19.

Trumpeter Miles Davis was a restless innovator who, by his own estimation, changed music five or six times. Jazz Nightly host Karl Gehrke surveys Davis's fifty year career.

Jazz Nightly host Karl Gehrke remembers saxophonist Jimmy Heath and a formative concert he heard in college by the band Heath co-led with his brother.

Jazz Nightly host Karl Gehrke picks his favorite jazz albums of 2019.

When is it time to start playing Christmas music? Jazz Nightly host Karl Gehrke thinks it's great to wait.

Black Hills band the Suspects joined Jazz Nightly for a live performance at the SDPB Rapid City studios.

Saxophonist Brian Hanegan is the Director of Jazz Studies and Assistant Professor of Music at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He directs the Northlanders Jazz Ensemble, Northlanders Jazz Combo, and coordinates the annual Jazz on the Upper Great Plains Festival. He joined us in our Sioux Falls Studios.

The JAS Quintet joined Jazz Nightly for a live performance in the SDPB Sioux Falls studios with new music from the band’s second album, “Bird Ritual Interrupted.”

Trumpeter/composer Alex Massa grew up in Rapid City and is now based in Chicago. He was back home for a series of shows with his Chicago trio in late March and they stopped by the

SDPB local favorite from the 2019 NPR Tiny Desk entries, Six Mile Road!