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Though jazz never went away, the past few years have seen a serious jazz renaissance that continues to grow and intersect with hip hop, electronic music, and more. Here are 15 of this year’s jazz albums that we strongly recommend…

Describing Butcher Brown’s music, jazz great Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah said, “Imagine if Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys had heard Biggie Smalls, D’Angelo, J Dilla, and could hold their own sitting in with John Coltrane.”

”A compilation seemed like an opportunity to bring jazz more into the spotlight, as well as to introduce our audience to some modern currents in the jazz scene,” said Adult Swim’s Luke Rhodes, who spearheaded this very cool comp…

Mastodon, Lamb of God, FIDLAR, and more (and of course, Wyld Stallyns) are on the soundtrack as well.

Today’s picks for live videos to watch while you’re home and every show is cancelled include Earl Sweatshirt at Coachella (with Flying Lotus, Tyler, Vince Staples), SZA, Jarvis Cocker, and more.

Refunds will be available to ticketholders unable to attend to rescheduled dates in September.

Tuesday show options include Dashboard Confessional, The Brothers 50, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Haim at a deli, Garcia Peoples, Red Baraat, and more.

Treefort Music Fest happens March March 25-29 in Boise, ID.

As you’d expect from NPR, their lists represent tons of styles of music, including country, rap, indie, jazz, modern classical, Afro-pop, R&B, reggaeton, electronic, experimental, pop, soul, and more.

We knew John was an Inter Arma fan from when he wore their shirt on Colbert earlier this year, and sure enough, their album Sulphur English, which he wrote the liner notes to, made his list.