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Trio Imagination is among the acts that will play at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville. Reggie Workman, David Virelles and Andrew Cyrille.

Release Day Picks this week highlight new albums by Gorillaz, Christian McBride, Lucero, Philip Selway, Gina Birch and Neutral Milk Hotel.

Preeminent contemporary jazz artist, ambassador, and impresario Christian McBride has built his stellar reputation in part by not being easily pigeonholed.

Tonight's Jazz Feature is one of Charles Mingus' most intense and incendiary recordings. It was done with his core band that worked a long gig with him at a New York club called "The Showplace". The gig was coming to an end and his two horn players were about to leave. As Mingus had just signed a contract with a new independent label called Candid Records, it gave him the opportunity to record the band and so it came to be: "Mingus Presents Mingus". Mingus introduces the tunes as he would in a club and the band is ready to deliver. The core band is just a quartet but what a...

WBGO’s Gary Walker to spotlight Dance Kobina, a new album from Joe Chambers on his Daybreak show and the drummer talks with Monifa Brown about the recording