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Norman Brown has been known as a top-notch smooth jazz guitarist. But in his new CD, West Coast Coolin', Brown unveils his singing voice. Hear NPR's Tavis Smiley and Brown.

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's on-the-trail efforts in Mississippi and Alabama may look awkward, but his money and organization could translate to wins on Tuesday.

In Fanfare this week, we've got a witty & wicked collaboration between Tugan Sokhiev, Haochen Zhang and The Philadelphia Orchestra, an extraordinary visit from the musicians from Marlboro, a futuristic soundscape experience from Max Richter, and more.

Philly Joe Jones stood within the first tier of jazz drummers in 1958, when he took an all-star band and a Bela Lugosi impression into the studio. Our Spooky Season soundtracks have never been the same.

Opponents of same-sex marriage believe that if a Democrat-dominated Statehouse could vote in gay marriage, a Republican-dominated one may be able to vote it out. A bill to repeal the law has the backing of some top leaders in the GOP-controlled Legislature, but rescinding rights is never easy.

As WRTI's Listener Choice Countdown rolls into Valentine's Day, we're pleased to feature a classic by Miles Davis, your No. 4 pick for Top Jazz Artist, as Album of the Week.

The trumpeter and bandleader premiered his gospel-jazz Abyssinian Mass back in 2008. But now, accompanied by a 70-voice choir, he's taking the sprawling work on the road and into African-American churches — whose services were the inspiration for the piece.

"Steppin' Out" is the first salvo on Big Shoulders Records, Kurt Elling's new independent label. Hear it now, only at WRTI.

The Obama administration says its ambitious, competitive grant program seeks to transform the teaching profession.

Mitt Romney's tax returns show he pays an effective rate of just under 15 percent. His father, George, paid two to three times that rate. What one family's changing tax burden reveals about the design of the American tax code.