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Absent from the recording studio for more than a decade, the restless musician has commissioned six composers for his new album.

The South Bronx Story is the third solo release from Carlos Henriquez, best known for his work over the past two decades as the principal bassist for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JALCO). JALCO’s maestro, jazz kingmaker Wynton Marsalis, plucked Henriquez for his septet shortly after the latter’s graduation from LaGuardia, New York City’s storied performing arts high school.

DeFrancesco played in Miles Davis's band as a teenager, brought the sound of the Hammond B-3 organ roaring back to the jazz mainstream in the 1990s and remained the instrument's most visible champion.

Co-commissioned by The Crossing and Penn Live Arts, 'SIN-EATER' is David T. Little's exploration of an archaic practice with modern implications.

While we await the solar eclipse on April 8, WRTI has some relevant pieces from the classical and jazz repertoire, from Sun Ra to Strauss.

Meet the six virtuoso pianists featured in this year's Steinway Week. And tune in to WRTI at 3 p.m. daily from March 25 through 30 to enjoy a different classical-meets-jazz performance from our studio.

This week brings two NEA Jazz Masters — pianist Abdullah Ibrahim and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington — plus a few others worth seeking out, like saxophonists Victor North and Seamus Blake, with their respective quartets.

"In honor of Stevie Wonder's 75th, I'm overjoyed to pay homage to his vast tapestry of music," says Courtney Blue. From 9 p.m. to midnight, she'll play nothing but jazz versions of his songs on Late Evening Jazz.

A pair of experimental-music titans join forces this weekend, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Also in Moment's Notice this week: trumpeter Terell Stafford blows up Notsolatin, and the bright young singer Julia Danielle rolls into Chris' Jazz Cafe.

In this week's Fanfare, we're featuring Dalia Stasevska and Emanuel Ax with The Philadelphia Orchestra, pianists Cynthia Raim and Lydia Artymiw, a tribute concert to Lucia Dlugoszewski presented by Bowerbird and more.