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A rising star in the world of improvised music with her group FLY or DIE, branch died on Monday at her home in Brooklyn, N.Y.

For the past month, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich laid out multiple strips of paper on his desk, with names like Uncle Owen Aunt Beru, Extra Life and Erykah Badu printed on them.

It wasn't exactly a tie. But then again, it was a rather bountiful year for jazz albums. The pollmaster breaks down the result, and by extension, the year in jazz.

The latest Apple commercial features an ultra-thin laptop and a fresh hit song, "New Soul," by Israeli singer-songwriter Yael Naim. Her just-released self-titled album features songs written in three languages. The added exposure for "New Soul" has helped Naim become the first Israeli solo artist to crack Billboard's Top 10.

Though mainly a jazz player, wrote the surf guitar anthem "Walk, Don't Run," which became a Top 10 hit for The Ventures on two occasions.

Over the second half of the 20th century, radio gave music its deepest connection to Americans. By splitting the dial into different formats, it produced a pop scene of striking diversity.

The orchestra's top flutist, Elizabeth Rowe, says that she is paid substantially less than her closest counterpart — a man. Her suit may be the first filed under a new Massachusetts pay equity law.

You voted! We counted! Here are the results of our 2015 Listener Poll for the year's best albums.

The Venezuelan tropical rock band Rawayana joined the electro-cumbia Colombian group Bomba Estéreo in a Miami studio to work on a collaborative single. The songs kept multiplying and the two formed the new super group ASTROPICAL, its self-titled debut out March 7.

Organizers of the Burning Man festival lifted a driving ban on Monday as muddy roads that had stranded thousands of attendees in the Nevada desert had dried up enough to allow people to begin leaving.