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Jazz bandleader and Tortoise member Jeff Parker is riding high off the release of this year's great Suite for Max Brown, and playing shows in support of it.

This week's ten Notable Releases include Higher Power's '90s rock-inspired LP2, Caspian's latest triumph, Wolf Parade's reliably solid new LP, Crowbar frontman Kirk Windstein's solo debut, and more.

Listen to new songs by Moses Sumney, Slow Mass, Jeff Parker (Tortoise), Field Music, The Orielles, Gay Meat (Museum Mouth), Kassa Overall, Blue Hawaii, Hamerkop (ex-Bachelorette) and more...

Tortoise member and acclaimed jazz musician Jeff Parker will release his new solo album, 'Suite for Max Brown,' this month via International Anthem/Nonesuch.

The schedules for the 2019 Winter Jazzfest marathons are out, along with some lineup additions. The marathons also include James Poyser + Bilal, Makaya McCraven, Meshell Ndegeocello, Ezra Collective, Mary Halvorson, Nellie McKay, Kassa Overall, Nubya Garcia, and more.

Jazz drummer/producer Makaya McCraven just released his great new album 'Universal Beings,' and it's picking up a lot of acclaim and getting some crossover love from hip hop audiences. He'll perform the music of the album at two U.S. shows with many of the album's guests...

From Oathbreaker to Fifth Harmony to Mitski to Beyonce, here's NPR's 100 favorite songs of the year.