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Ravi Coltrane Quartet: Live At The Village Vanguard After releasing his latest album, last year's Spirit Fiction, the saxophonist put his decade-old quartet on hiatus. He now takes a new group into a venue haunted by the ghosts of his parents, who also presented a new band there nearly 50 years ago. Hear a live concert. Read this story

FIRST LISTEN First Listen: 'The Pedrito Martinez Group' A cosmopolitan entertainer and authentic folklorist, the singing Cuban percussionist has lined up a program where timba, four-part harmony and The Jackson 5 butt heads. The result is a dance party as accomplished as it is hard to resist. Read this story

MUSIC INTERVIEWS Vijay Iyer On Learning From War For three years, the jazz musician and his collaborator Mike Ladd have been working with war veterans-turned-poets to bring their words to light. NPR's Arun Rath speaks with Iyer and Iraq veteran Maurice Decaul about the album that resulted, Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project. Read this story

MARIAN MCPARTLAND'S PIANO JAZZ Carline Ray On Piano Jazz The multi-instrumentalist joins Marian McPartland for Duke Ellington and Gershwin tunes in 1997. Read this story

A BLOG SUPREME The Jazz Documentarian Who Won The Lottery When Brandon Bain started singing in New York jazz clubs, he knew he wanted to capture the scene on video. Against 10,000-to-1 odds, he found the means to do it. His web series Capsulocity now features impromptu performances of top young talent generating a bit of unscripted fun. Read this story