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Trumpeter Enrico Rava is one of Italy's best known and most recorded jazz musicians. In the 1970s, Rava made some memorable records for the ECM label. Now he's back with the company and one happy result is The Words and the Days.

Four female musicians from Bellingham, Wash., who call themselves "The Trucks," have released a debut album of the same name. The Trucks are another entry in a long line of female rock bands that know and find their audience.

Cat Stevens left the recording industry in 1978, after converting to Islam and changing his name to Yusuf Islam. Since then, he's occasionally found himself in the middle of controversies involving the Muslim world and the West. The former star has a new CD, An Other Cup.

Award-winning gospel composer Margaret Douroux plans to build a concert hall in Los Angeles for the preservation of gospel music culture.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead recommends four box sets for gifts that won't break the bank. They are: Fats Waller/If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It; How Low Can You Go?; Sonny Stitt/Stitt's Bits: The Bebop Recordings, 1949-1952; and Andrew Hill - Solo.

Washington Post reporter Thomas Ricks discusses his book, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, and he is joined by singer-songwriter Josh Ritter who performs "Girl in the War."

The ghostwriter for James Brown's autobiography, The Godfather of Soul, Tucker is a contributing editor for The Black Music Research Journal.

Irish singer/songwriter Damien Rice won fans around the globe with his debut CD, simply titled O. In the four years since then, Rice has teased his adoring fans with a few small releases. But he has finally released a second studio album, 9.

Classic R&B songs get sung over and over. A half a century after his first forays in the genre, crooner Pat Boone is back on the R&B train with We Are Family: R&B Classics.

Tad Pierson has made a career out of his love for cars and American music. He says there are "fewer and fewer real-deal places to go and hear the real stuff," but it's his job to find and share it — one carload of listeners at a time.