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Nathaniel Cross on trombone, Binker Golding on tenor saxophone, Moses Boyd on drums and Theon Cross on tuba perform at SXSW in March 2017.

Get To Know London's Thriving Jazz Scene (By Way Of Austin, Texas)

Players like Moses Boyd, Shabaka Hutchings and Sarathy Korwar drive London's jazz scene forward with sounds from around the world. In March, SXSW hosted all three for an up-to-the minute dispatch.

Musician Rubén Blades' new album contains jazz and rumba.

Rubén Blades Swings Big Band Jazz And Rumba On New Album

The iconic actor and musician teams with Jazz At Lincoln Center to sing big band swing tunes and songs from his catalog.

Conductor Simon Rattle took his Berlin Philharmonic and symphonies by Beethoven to Carnegie Hall for a week-long residency.

Beethoven Symphonies At Carnegie Hall Via Berlin

From an all-Beethoven residency week, hear the storied Berlin Philharmonic play the profound Sixth and witty Eighth with conductor Simon Rattle.

Andrea Bocelli (center) and his son, Matteo, attend the U.K. premiere of Disney's <em>The Nutcracker And The Four Realms</em> on Nov. 1, 2018, in London.

Andrea Bocelli Passes The Art Of Expressive Singing To His Son

Superstar Andrea Bocelli has sung with just about everyone, from Celine Dion to Ariana Grande. On his latest album, Sì, Bocelli tries something new — singing with his son.

Marin Alsop leads the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. On Monday, management and musicians announced a new one-year contract, ending a bitter labor dispute.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra And Musicians End Contentious Contract Dispute

The battle between management and musicians, which reached a low point with a June lockout by management, ended Monday with the ratification of a new one-year contract.

Billy Bragg And Joe Henry On Mountain Stage

Two gifted storytellers perform railroad songs and take fans on a journey during a Mountain Stage performance from 2016.

Despite leaving the acting business multiple times, Stockwell's career spanned 70 years.

'Blue Velvet' and 'Quantum Leap' actor Dean Stockwell has died at age 85

The veteran actor was known for his wide variety of roles — from sci-fi tv shows such as Quantum Leap and Battlestar Galactica, to arthouse classics like Paris, Texas and Blue Velvet.

Bandits on the Run, composed of members Adrian Enscoe, Sydney Shepherd and Regina Strayhorn, submitted a stand-out video to the 2019 Tiny Desk Contest.

These Tiny Desk Contest Entrants Bring Mini-Symphonies To The NYC Subway

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Adrian Enscoe, Sydney Shepherd and Regina Strayhorn, members of the band Bandits on the Run and stand-out entrants in this year's Tiny Desk Contest.

The Colombia premiere of Walt Disney Animation Studios' <em>Encanto</em> in Bogotá in November. The song "We Don't Talk About Bruno" reached the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on Monday.

Let's talk about 'We Don't Talk About Bruno'

The catchy song by Lin-Manuel Miranda from Disney's Encanto reached the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100, only the second from a Disney animated film to reach those heights.

Best known for his guitar work in the '70s art-punk band Television, Richard Lloyd recently reworked a terrific 1987 solo album.

A Guitar-Rock Great Gets Reissued and Revisited

When Richard Lloyd's long-unavailable Field of Fire returns to shelves, it'll be as a two-disc "deluxe" edition, with one disc a remastered version of the original and the other a radically different "revisitation," with songs in a different sequence and two bonus tracks.

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