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The deluge of songs immortalizing the wrath of Hurricane Katrina continues with the release of a collaboration between Elvis Costello and legendary New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint. The delivery is mostly coy and cool, the groove a classic example of Toussaint understatement.

An American architect has designed a glass and marble museum that will house the 2,000-year-old Ara Pacis, Rome's "Altar of Peace." It will be the first structure added to the Eternal City's ancient historic center in seven decades.

Byron has a way of homing in on an artist's legacy and transforming it with intelligence and adventure. In this case, he takes on the music of Thomas Dorsey and of Sister Rosetta Tharpe in concert.

Here, the three jazz sidemen come together as a trio. Their format isn't earth-shatteringly new, but after nearly 25 years as a band, their rapport is. Listen to a live concert.

It's audacious to declare the end of an entire musical subculture, and downright outrageous to do so when it's your musical subculture. With "Hip Hop Is Dead," Nas attempts to steer the genre in new directions while reasserting his status as one of its foremost personalities.

Pairing the classical cellist with the Michigan iconoclast makes a fair bit of sense: Neither cares much for genre boundaries.

Jazz flautist and Latin Grammy Award winner Nestor Torres' intuitive sense of melody and rhythm has made him a fixture in the "smooth" jazz universe for more than two decades. He talks to NPR's Tavis Smiley about his latest CD, Sin Palabras (Without Words) — hear full-length cuts from the album.

A group of teenagers that formed a rock band in the 1960s never released their music until now.

Rev. Jesse Jackson was at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated there.

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