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Bandleader and reed player Hutchings was born in London, but partly raised in Barbados. His new album with Sons of Kemet highlights the criss-crossing trajectories of African musical diasporas.

Barnes and Osborne would both be 100 on July 17. Barnes grew up in Chicago and went on to play on Bob Dylan's first single. Osborne turned up on records by Mel Tormé , Wynonie Harris and others.

Critic Kevin Whitehead reflects on the legacy of the musician who would have been 100 on April 22, 2022. Mingus died in 1979, leaving behind a catalog of music that reflected his outsized personality.

Currulao combines drums and marimbas and is popular along the country's Pacific coast where most of the population is Afro-Colombian. One verse goes: "We no longer have peace in our paradise."

The actor and serial prankster Sacha Baron Cohen is suspected of infiltrating a far-right group's rally in Washington state over the weekend.

An updated recording of Anyone Can Whistle,a now-celebrated musical by composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, has some surprises, even for the completist.

Chuck Lorre's new show for Netflix stars Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin as an aging star and his longtime agent. It's set in Hollywood, but it's really about the biggest show of all: growing old.

"Outside Myself," Infinity Song's entry for the Morning Edition Song Project, is about trying to remember the big, wide world outside of you.

Rigby's memoir, Girl to City, tracks how a Catholic girl from Pittsburgh became part of the New York punk scene — and invented and reinvented herself as a performer, songwriter and a mother.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to John Rzeznik, frontman and guitarist of Goo Goo Dolls, about the band's latest album, "Chaos in Bloom."