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If you're old enough, you might recall the comic Godfrey Cambridge from late-night television in the 1960s, when he was one of a new wave of black

Below are the results of NPR Music's 8th Annual Jazz Critics Poll (my 15th, going back to the poll's beginnings in the Village Voice). These are

Lana Del Rey’s book/CD release of poems unleashed a torrent of spoken-word and literary recorded works in late 2020. The best of show goes to Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl ensemble, usually noted for exploring jazz frontiers. In Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12) vocalist Amirtha Kidambi tries her hand at the very precise poem form of sestina, and Robert Wyatt drops by for guest readings. It isn’t just the clarity of lyrics that makes this album special. Halvorson’s guitar and the other players’ special instruments give the poems an otherworldly quality unlike any other r...