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WBGO’s Trevor Smith talks with producer and concert impresario Paul Peck about the ‘Late Night Basie’ album featuring collaborations between jazz and hip hop artists.

WBGO’s Pat Prescott talks with Tyreek McDole, winner of the 2023 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition, about his passion for the music.

WBGO’s Lezlie Harrison talks with trumpeter and bandleader Etienne Charles and vocalist Rene Marie about Charles’ new album ‘Creole Orchestra.’

WBGO’s Lezlie Harrison talks with singer, songwriter and pianist Kandace Springs about her new single that pays tribute to her musician father, Scat Springs.

Saxophonist Ada Rovatti talks with WBGO’s Lee Mergner about her new album The Hidden World of Piloo, inspired by her late father.

Anima, a group from Brazil, mixes its classical training and early music experience with an interest in Brazilian folk music and instruments. The band will tour the United States later this month. Susan Kaplan, of member station WFCR, reports. (7:45) Anima's CD's, entitled Especiarias and Espiral Do Tempo (Time Spiral) are available from MCD World Music. Websites in Spanish:Especiarias and Espiral Do Tempo

The Senate votes of 53-45 to approve former Alabama Attorney General William Pryor's nomination to a lifetime seat on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Republicans hailed Pryor as a top-notch public servant, even as many Democrats described him as a right-wing extremist.

The shooting occurred around 7 p.m. local time, as officers from the U.S. Marshals Service tried to take a man into custody in the Frayser community in Memphis, Tenn.

Over half those births will happen in just eight countries, according to the U.N. agency.

Brad "Darbian" Myers, who set the world record last week in a 4:56 speedrun of "Super Mario Bros.," plays a slug-starring video game soundtracked by Tera Melos' frenetic prog-punk wallop.