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For the past year, The New York Times has been asking musicians, writers and scholars to share the music they’d play for a friend to get them int

In an epic feat of improvisation, 12 players over three days reimagined the jazz great’s magnum opus

Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings, Tom Skinner and other top U.K. jazz musicians recorded an album inspired by Miles Davis' ‘Bitches Brew.’

With a smart young nine-piece ensemble, soul and jazz singer Whirimako Black charmed some 1200 at the Opera House with sultry swing.

Remembering Chick Corea: From Spain to Sorceress, 12 essential performances from the virtuoso Corea helped enrich the lexicon of jazz, merging its harmonic language with the heaviness (and amplification) of rock and funk. Chick Corea in1976. Polydor Records/Wikimedia Commons Chick Corea, the pioneering keyboardist and bandleader who died last Tuesday at 79, will be forever regarded as a crucial architect of jazz-rock fusion. It’s...