Celebrating singer Sarah Vaughan, on what would have been her 100th birthday

Born in 1924 in Newark, N.J., Vaughan came up in the '40s, alongside bebop, a new jazz style she instantly took to. In the following decades, she proved to be one of the best singers of any genre.

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Tierra Whack springs to the forefront of hip-hop creativity on a new album

The Philadelphia rapper and singer is known for her playful side, but she widens her subject matter on World Wide Whack, with emotions ranging from ecstatic happiness to the deepest despair.

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On 'Tigers Blood,' Waxahatchee is in her anti-eras era

Katie Crutchfield's gorgeous sixth album affirms that real lives are lived not in clear chapters, but as a zig-zag of pitfalls and revelations one can only hope to learn from.

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Rediscovering the rigor of composers Julia Perry and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

A new album, American Counterpoints, reasserts the importance of two 20th century Black composers whose work has been neglected.

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