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Services For Older Jazz Musicians

Organizations such as the nonprofit Jazz Foundation of America and Billy Taylor's Jazz Mobile are two groups striving to help older jazz musicians in need. Another organization that is supposed to help musicians is their union, the American Federation of Musicians, but it has been criticized for catering mainly to classical and Broadway musicians. Hear the second in a four-part series.

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Felix Contreras is co-creator and host of Alt.Latino, NPR's pioneering program about Latin Alternative music and Latino culture. It features music as well as interviews with many of the most well-known Latinx musicians, actors, filmmakers, and writers. He has hosted and produced Alt.Latino episodes from Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, and throughout the U.S. since the show started in 2010.