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Alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, son of Indian immigrants, says he didn't think about his ethnic identity growing up. But on his new album Kinsmen, he and other like-minded South Asian American jazz musicians, fuse American jazz with a global sound that embraces the music of India.

Chestnut is a musical agent of sweet and serious soul. JazzSet celebrates Martin Luther King Day with a concert from the pianist, his quintet and vocalist Cynthia Scott at the Kennedy Center. The group performs a spiritual, hymns and gospel songs.

The Heavy brings back vintage R&B with rich retro-soul instrumentals and gritty lo-fi sampling. In a session with host David Dye, the band explains how its sound developed, and even previews a new, unreleased song.

In an interview with host David Dye, Shooter Jennings talks about Waylon Forever, a collection of songs he recorded with his father Waylon in 1995. Shooter then revisited the material with his backing band, The .357s, to release a ramshackle revival of his father's classic outlaw country.

Though the room was packed with music lovers, many didn't know what to expect of Watcha Clan at Webster Hall in New York City. The French band's globalFEST performance was filled with deep bass and frenetic electronic beats mixing the sounds from around the world in a high energy performance.

Reed is relatively new to the national jazz scene, but he's been singing for more than 50 years. After a life of addiction and incarceration, Reed has emerged triumphant, ready for his moment in the spotlight. With accompanist Gary Fisher, Reed performs "Sleeping Bee" and "Ask Me Now" before he and host Marian McPartland get together on Ellington's "All Too Soon."

The American composer, who died Feb. 1, embraced many compositional styles, from the neo-classical to the avant-garde. He refused to identify his music with any particular school, declaring that he wanted to have "one foot in the past and one in the future."

For her new recording of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, Mutter traveled to the composer's old stomping ground in Leipzig, Germany, to the site where the concerto had its premiere in 1845.

Birdseed Shirt, the debut LP from Deleted Scenes, is a creative and emotional album of soaring, hook-laden highs and more tempered lows, with each mood skillfully executed and full of rich imagery and metaphors. Taking the odd title from a Jonathan Safran Foer novel, the duo from Brooklyn and Washington, DC make playfully unpredictable songs that veer in unexpected directions while remaining completely infectious.

With her wispy, delicate voice, Dearie was a darling of the jazz world for decades. Her biggest hit was "I'm Hip," and she even recorded with Schoolhouse Rock. The cabaret singer and pianist died Saturday of natural causes in her New York City home. She was 82.