Pasquale Grasso

This week's Take Five is full of musical hat-tips, from Moor Mother, Bennie Maupin and Adam Rudolph, Grant Stewart, Anteloper, and Billy Mohler.

This week's Take Five features new music by Shabaka Hutchings, Pasquale Grasso, Florian Hoefner, ChimyTina, and Vieux Farqua Touré.

At Yamaha Studio NYC, Samara Joy and Pasquale Grasso shared conversation and musical stories with a simple but sophisticated style.

From songbook standards to state-of-the-art inventions, hear this week's must-hear new music.

Thelonious Monk, born on this day in 1917, has long been a lodestar for improvising musicians, and in particular those who followed in his footsteps as a…