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Throughout the month, Dave Conant is offering advice on how to get the most out of the arts. Take a listen!

Opera Philadelphia seemed to be itching for a break from the opera house with its pop-up performances at the Reading Terminal Market and Macy’s Center…

Part of understanding African sacred music means thinking about its colonial context. It's the music of oppressed people combined with the music of their oppressors. For decades, Fred Onovwerosuoke has collected and arranged this music for choral groups.

The Berklee College of Music grad grew up in the Palestinian territories, where music was what kept him off the streets. He's translated that into a command of a 72-string instrument called the qanun.

See Marcus Miller's Bruce Lee action figure, Wayne Shorter's birthday set and more from Newport.

The guitarist's electronics-enhanced trio is driven by what its leader calls "textural surprise. On stage, that's a point of departure for a sonically diverse set of original compositions.

The trumpeter was a jazz and classical rising star when he began studying the modal music of his Iraqi heritage. His Two Rivers band uses microtonal techniques to investigate the blues.

See Michel Camilo's stomping Oxfords and Esperanza Spalding's vibrating bass in pixel portraits.

2013 marked three dozen years since the first incarnation of the group coalesced to resurrect a then-disappearing tradition — and infuse it both bebop and funk. Hear their danceable Newport set.

One of the finest guitarists in jazz history — who made classic records with Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Ron Carter and so on — is still at it at age 82. Hear him perform with a younger guitar phenom.