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Berklee College of Music is celebrating CODA's wins for best picture, best adapted screenplay and best supporting actor. Students and alumni worked on the film, along with other award-winning films.

With a spare and sweet acoustic guitar behind his voice, first-time Tiny Desk Conest entrant Celso Garayúa describes expansive love as an idyllic house on the beach.

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the death of rapper Christopher Wallace, the Notorious B.I.G. His rhymes were hugely influential and resonate, especially with those in his hometown of Brooklyn.

In 1997, Ry Cooder sparked an international interest in Cuban music as producer and guitarist on the hit CD Buena Vista Social Club. He recently returned to the same studio where that album was recorded, this time to collaborate with legendary Cuban guitarist Manuel Galban.

Dizzy Gillespie's legendary 1942 composition fueled a jazz revolution called bebop.

Folklorist Nick Spitzer tells the story of Woody Guthrie's leftist national anthem.

Tejano singer Selena died in 1995. NPR's A Martinez talks to Maria Garcia, creator and host of the podcast Anything for Selena, about projects that will keep Selena's music alive for new generations.

Saxophonist Branford Marsalis has performed pop music with Sting, hip-hop with Buckshot LeFonque, and jazz with a host of giants like Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Art Blakey. His new CD offers another challenge. Marsalis teams with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra on Creation - a collection of the works of various French composers. Liane speaks with Marsalis about his newfound confidence with classical performance and some of the lessons he learned along the way. (17:49) Creation is on Sony Classical

NPR's Tom Cole sits down with blues guitar legend Eric Clapton to talk about his childhood in Surrey, England, his difficult relationship with his family, and why "reptile" is a term of endearment.

Scott talks with Lucinda Williams about her new CD, Essence (Lost Highway, 088 170 197-2). This is Ms. Williams' sixth major label recording. Her last release, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, won a Grammy in 1998 for Best Folk Album.