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Renee Klahr/Think of the best songs of 2021 as a playlist catering to the most basic human urges. Within it, booties were called, muffins were buttered and bloody revenge was contemplated. It was quite a year. -
Renee Klahr/Think of the best songs of 2021 as a playlist catering to the most basic human urges. Within it, booties were called, muffins were buttered and bloody revenge was contemplated. It was quite a year.
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Kamasi Washington's mesmerizing take on the tune by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard gets an equally transcendental visual treatment.
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The comical and moving synth pop of John Grant, enchanting harmonies from The Watson Twins, the first new music from Elvis Costello & The Imposters in a decade and more. -
Take an essential and unprecedented glimpse into the music and life of the groundbreaking pianist-composer.
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Pianist and electronic DJ Mark de Clive-Lowe turns his mistakes into art by sampling his bandmates live in the moment.
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Headlines this week have highlighted the macabre circumstances surrounding the death of Michael Panico, but overlooked his notable contributions to a music community jolted by the news.
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The trumpeter and composer's audacious, politically exigent and altogether astounding new album features a string quartet and the rapper Kool A.D.
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The resourceful Mexican jazz singer Magos Herrera partners with the string quartet Brooklyn Rider, creating an album that's steeped in Latin American culture.
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Batiste, the band leader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, sits at the piano and demonstrates his "everything in the pot" style of playing.
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The jazz singer, who used to be into radical feminist punk, now composes and sings beautiful jazz ballads.
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A typical album from the Australian band The Necks may have only one long track — music that stretches out in a jazzy mesmerizing flow. Pianist Chris Abrahams talks about their latest, called Body.
