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Questlove, Dawn Richard and a range of other musicians, writers and critics share their favorites from the experimental pianist, organist and bandleader’s wide-ranging catalog.

Giggster highlights five famous New York City parties that perfectly encapsulate why its considered "the city that never sleeps."

Newly reissued by El Palmas Music, Rada’s 1983 debut "Upadesa" is a unique merger of academic theory and experimental electronics.

All the albums you need to know about from the past seven days

Andy Beta is a writer for Texas Monthly.

An entrancing listen to a jazz great, Alice Coltrane Andy Beta View Comments In the years since Alice Coltrane passed from this world in 2007, a paradigm shift has occurred. For much of her lifetime, she and her music stood in the shadow of her husband, the late John Coltrane, a jazz titan and a near saintly figure in 20th-century American music. In the wake of his death in 1967, she recorded roughly a dozen albums - playing piano, harp, organ and leading the likes of Pharoah Sanders, Joe Hende...

The inventor of the “Fourth World” musical aesthetic has passed away of natural causes