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Joe Chambers – Samba de Maracatu (Blue Note): “On Samba de Maracatu, Chambers asserts himself more as a mallet player, particularly on the vibraphone.  Throughout the album, he uses the vibraphone as the lead melodic and improvisational voice that often converses with Merritt’s piano accompaniments and solos. While Samba de Maracatu isn’t a Brazilian jazz album in this strictest sense, Chambers utilizes various rhythms and indigenous Brazilian percussion instruments on several pieces, including the title track, which references the syncretic Afro-Brazil rhythms that were originated ...

Wind of Change All of the excitement of a true-crime podcast, none of the dead women. In this eight-episode series, investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe takes a look back at the CIA’s long history of subterfuge through the arts. There’s what we know — Louis Armstrong and Nina Simone on tour in Africa in the ’60s — and then there’s what we can’t be sure of. A hot tip from a friend prompts Keefe to investigate a rumor that the Scorpions’ 1990 power ballad “Wind of Change” might have actually been written by CIA operatives to bolster anticommunist sentiment in Europe...