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We’re looking ahead to another busy week on the jazz scene in Philadelphia, with concerts by singer Jazzmeia Horn, flutist Nicole Mitchell, trumpeter Josh Lawrence and more. Moment's Notice is your essential guide.

WRTI's Nate Chinen and NPR Music's Sheldon Pearce get all wrapped up in the amniotic embrace of a new album by a guru of the L.A. ambient-jazz scene; the new album by Carlos Niño & Friends is called Placenta. Also: The fourth album by DIIV sees the indie rock group leaning into shoegaze-inspired sounds, and Andrew Bird creates an album in tribute to the "Golden Era" jazz tunes of the 1930s and '40s.

Alto saxophonist and bandleader Marshall Allen has made 100 trips around the sun — and for most of that time, he's been inseparable from the Sun Ra Arkestra. WRTI is honored to share this recent birthday concert, as we celebrate a big one.

A klezmer trombonist with a history of community building in Philly, Dan Blacksberg runs a series called Encounters at Studio 34 — a yoga studio that he routinely transforms into a laboratory for sound.

The alto saxophonist burst into her Tiny Desk Concert like a meteor breaching the atmosphere.

In Moment's Notice this week: the Danilo Pérez Trio brings enlightenment, Kris Davis presents a new chamber suite.

The name of the great contralto and civil rights icon now lives above the doors to the grand hall in Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

In this week's Moment's Notice, Kahil El'Zabar and David Murray lift spirits, Luke Carlos O'Reilly leaves the gate open, and more.

What happened when the Cuban pianist Omar Sosa met with a Santería high priest? He found his life calling.

The rising young singer-songwriter, who tours with Willie Nelson and sings on Beyoncé's latest album, is making a name for herself in a new era of more inclusive country music.