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Sir the Baptist's debut album is Preacher's Kid.

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Sir The Baptist: A Preacher's Kid Finds His Own Sanctuary In Music

8:39am August 27, 2016

by NPR Staff

Sir the Baptist grew up on the South Side of Chicago. NPR's Scott Simon talks with the singer and rapper about how music became his way of picking up where his father left off.

Brother Arnold Hadd, a resident of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in Maine, is one of the last remaining Shakers.

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The Stewards Of A Disappearing Faith — And 10,000 Songs

6:44am August 27, 2016

by Susan Sharon

The religious sect known as Shakers, responsible for the song "Simple Gifts" and thousands of others, is almost gone — and a non-Shaker is trying to keep the group's musical history alive.

Don Cheadle stars as Miles Davis in the film Miles Ahead.

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Three Miles Ahead

7:19pm August 26, 2016

Hear three interpretations of the musical icon: on screen, with actor and director Don Cheadle; on the page, with co-biographer Quincy Troupe; and on stage, with trumpeter Keyon Harrold.

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Cecile McLorin Salvant And Sullivan Fortner

7:05pm August 26, 2016

The communication between piano and voice often becomes deeply personal. Two rising stars of their instruments prove as much in duet at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

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KCRW Presents: Miguel

5:14pm August 26, 2016

by Jason Bentley

Watch the boundary-pushing R&B singer perform "What's Normal Anyway" live in the studio.

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Britney's Back: Spears Returns With Ninth Studio Album, 'Glory'

4:29pm August 26, 2016

by Tom Moon

Tom Moon reviews the new album from Britney Spears, Glory. This is Spears' ninth studio album.

Rudy Van Gelder used his parents' living room in Hackensack, N.J., as his recording studio in the mid-1950s.

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Rudy Van Gelder, Definitive Jazz Recording Engineer, Has Died

4:29pm August 26, 2016

by Felix Contreras

The man who captured hundreds of jazz's greatest recordings — by Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock — died Thursday at his home studio. He was 91.

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Across the Blue Ridge #35 - The Carter Family Songs Live On

3:06pm August 26, 2016

by Paul Brown

This week we take some time with the repertoire of early country music superstars The Carter Family. From their rural home in far southwest Virginia, the Carters – A.P., his wife Sara,

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Norah Jones On Piano Jazz

12:17pm August 26, 2016

The smoky-voiced singer reinvents standards like "The Nearness Of You" in a 2003 session.

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Hard Working Americans On World Cafe

11:45am August 26, 2016

Hear the Todd Snider-fronted supergroup perform songs from its new album, Rest In Chaos.