Jazz Appreciation Month: Composer channels

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and we're featuring the works of the great composers on these channels!

Featured Channel

A Jazz spin on rock and pop songs

Composers: Shorter

Jazz music's greatest living composer, Wayne Shorter

Composers: Strayhorn

Compositions by Ellington's right-hand man, Billy Strayhorn

Composers: The Beatles

Jazz artists' take on John, Paul, George and Ringo

Composers: Bird and Diz

Songs by the fathers of bop: Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie

Composers: Ellington

The timeless music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn

Composers: Jobim

The timeless work of Bossa Nova maestro Antonio Carlos Jobim

Composers: Monk

The enigmatic, challenging, and revolutionary Thelonious Monk