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"Growing up I would hear about our peoples being 'discovered' ... " says author Brittany Luby. "I would go home and my parents would tell me: That's not actually how things happened."

Clarinetist Ben Goldberg became known in the early 1990s as a member of the New Klezmer Trio. Goldberg's new album is a memorial to soprano-saxophonist Steve Lacy, who died two years ago. It shows how well Goldberg understands his subject.

As introductions go, The Duke Spirit's "Cuts Across the Land" is a strong one. It's the sound of five different noisemakers playing essentially the exact same part, presenting the band as a single, unitary creature fueled by its own momentum.

Evelina Gomez, a laid-back surfer girl, is the heroine of author Michele Sarros's new young adult novel, Honey Blonde Chica. Evie's teen travails take place in an upscale L.A. suburb.

The exotic strains of Ethiopian jazz are not widely heard by American ears. But the work of many talented artists can be enjoyed in an ambitious multi-volume CD series called Ethiopiques.

Record producer Gregory Page was sitting in the back office of an Ocean Beach coffee shop called Java Joe's on an open-mic night when he heard what he thought was a female singer with a beautiful voice. He went into the shop and discovered that the voice belonged to a man: a folk singer and songwriter named Tom Brosseau.

But "Like A Star" is a real find: Languid and wistful, mild in a weirdly appealing way, it's a worshipful ode to a quarrelsome lover that's meandering, tentative and hook-free. It shouldn't sound nearly as good as it does, but Rae sells the song as if her life depended on it, uncovering new layers of longing and lust that probably weren't on the page to begin with. As a songwriter, Rae isn't fully developed, but as a rehabilitator of creaky jazz ballads, she's already first-rate.

Every month seems to bring another rediscovered talent from the golden age of soul music — someone who was little more than a footnote during the outbreak of amazingness that distinguishes that fertile era. What makes Lorraine Ellison's case puzzling is the remarkable consistency of her work.

Jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall has become a favorite of jazz fans and critics worldwide. But musician and Day to Day contributor David Was finds her latest album less than satisfying.

One of the best albums of the '80s, and certainly one of the most unjustly overlooked, Gregson and Collister's Home and Away has finally received the reissue it's long deserved. It's a spare, gorgeous record, and no song is more spare or gorgeous than "All the Time in the World."