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Pat Martino posing with his guitar in 1994. The celebrated jazz guitarist died Nov. 1 at age 77. Michel Delsol/Michel Delsol/Getty Images hide caption
Mon Laferte's 1940 Carmen is one of our picks for the best releases out on Oct. 29. Joel Orta/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Fuubutsushi, "Good Sky Day" Courtesy of Longform Editions hide caption
John Coltrane on the cover of A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle. Courtesy of Impulse! Records hide caption
Cha Wa performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert. NPR hide caption
A pioneer of the modern music festival, George Wein co-founded the Newport Jazz and Newport Folk festivals and helped launch the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. He died Sept. 13 at 95. Jonathan Chimene/WBGO hide caption
Jazz singer Tony Bennett and pop star Lady Gaga released their second duet album, Love for Sale, on Oct. 1. Larry Busacca/Getty Images for NARAS hide caption
Dr. Lonnie Smith. Frank De Blase/Blue Note Records hide caption
Rather than a heroic journey, the story at the center of Blanchard's opera is one of self-discovery, with an assured, tactile specificity which includes a boistrous fraternity step routine that opens Act III. Ken Howard/Met Opera hide caption
Cover art for The Eivind Aarset 4-tet's Phantasmagoria, or A Different Kind of Journey. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Patrick Shiroishi, 'To Kill A Wind-Up Bird' Courtesy of the artist hide caption
George Wein, backstage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in May 2012. Rick Diamond/Getty Images hide caption
Phil Schaap attends the Jazz at Lincoln Center's Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame induction ceremony on June 4, 2013 in New York. Brad Barket/Getty Images hide caption
Charlie Watts onstage with Tim Ries' jazz tribute act, The Rolling Stones Project, at a London venue in 2013. Richard Kerris hide caption
Top left, clockwise: PinkPantheress, Lucas Debargue, Lee Morgan, James Blake, Injury Reserve, Foxing. Courtesy of the artists hide caption
Lara Downes talks with Ledisi. NPR hide caption
John Coltrane, photographed performing at The Penthouse during a run of performances in Seattle, Wash. in 1965. A recording of one, long lost, is now being released as A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle. Chuck Stewart/Courtesy Universal Music Group hide caption
John Coltrane's Masterpiece Breathes New Life With 'A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle'
A still from Irreversible Entanglements' "Open The Gates" video. YouTube hide caption