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The conductor, composer and pianist plays a special treatment of "Stormy Weather" in a 1990 session.

NPR Music remembers musicians — singers, songwriters, instrumentalists — and other visionaries we lost in 2016. Explore and celebrate their musical legacies.

Hear a slightly off-kilter collection of beloved carols, Hanukkah favorites and works by Prokofiev, Mahler and Thomas Adès.

The contentious presidential election colored the listening habits of NPR's classical producer.

Critic Francis Davis surveyed the jazz community to determine the best albums of the year. The winner has had a very good 2016.

Borrowing from Persian music and American jazz, two Iranian women come together to create a singular sound.

The singer and pianist performs "Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me" with host Marian McPartland.

The Palestinian jazz crooner, who was 8 years old at the start of the Second Intifada, says hearing Frank Sinatra changed his life. "[He] has got all credit for me going into singing," Kamal says.

Glasper's quartet keeps building on its genre-hopping mix of jazz, R&B, hip-hop and more.

The composer's string quartets are known for their use of microtones — and their extreme technical difficulty. Just in time for his 90th birthday, The Kepler Quartet has finally recorded them all.