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Andra Day – United States vs Billie Holiday (Warner Bros): “Cassandra Monique Batie (born December 30, 1984), known professionally as Andra Day, is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. In 2015, she released her debut album, Cheers to the Fall. At the 2016 Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for Best R&B Album and the single, “Rise Up”, was nominated for Best R&B Performance. To promote “Rise Up”, she performed the song on The View, the performance earned her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. Day also appeared alongside Stevie Wonder, who is partially credited for her disc...

Jason Matthews, C.I.A. Officer Turned Novelist, Dies at 69 After 33 years at the agency, he turned out three well-received novels that included realistic details of espionage — and appearances by Vladimir Putin. The novelist and former intelligence operative Jason Matthews in Bryant Park in Manhattan in 2015. His fiction, he said, was “an amalgam of people I’ve known, of things I’ve done, of stuff I’ve lived.”Credit...Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times May 2, 2021, 11:29 a.m. ET Jason Matthews, who after 33 years as a C.I.A. officer in Istanbul, Athens, Belgrade, Rome, Budapest a...

After 33 years with the spy agency, he published three novels known for their realistic depictions of tradecraft.

Record Store Day 2021: A list of jazz records for vinyl collectors By Adam Feibel Mick Haupt / Unsplash The 14th edition of Record Store Day will take place in two different “drops” in June and July, featuring more than 400 special releases combined. Taking place annually since 2008, Record Store Day sees collectors flock to indie record stores across the globe to scope out a lineup of special vinyl releases, including rarities, reissues and box sets. Here’s a curated list of some of the special releases that jazz enthusiasts and collectors can find in the 2021 edition of Record Store ...

Oh and Sorey aren't mere collaborators or accompanists; they're educators and composers in their own rights. Of Sorey's drumming, Iyer cites a "life-sustaining kind of magic." And of Oh's bass playing, "Her awareness of and relation to pulse, it's like micro-detail," he says. Those qualities and more can be found on  Uneasy, the trio's first studio record, which drops April 9 on ECM Records. The album is a mix of topical material "Children of Flint" with Iyer originals ("Combat Breathing") and standards ("Night and Day") from deep in their wheelhouse. Most importantly, Iyer considers the pai...