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This week on New Music Friday, NPR Music’s Felix Contreras and WRTI’s Nate Chinen discuss a bundle of adventurous, thrilling albums out this week that cross genres, together with new work by Gaby Mareno, Les Amazones d’Afrique and extra.
Then, Nate is joined by NPR Music’s Tom Huizenga to debate the final word American genre-collision: George Gershwin’s masterpiece “Rhapsody in Blue,” which marked the centennial of its first efficiency on Monday, February 12.
Featured albums:
- Gaby Moreno, Nightfall
- Mike McGinnis +9, Outing: Highway Journey II
- Mike LeDonne and the Groover Quartet, Fantastic!
- Nathalie Joachim, Ki moun ou ye
- Les Amazones d’Afrique, Musow Danse
Different notable albums out Feb. 16:
- Jennifer Lopez, That is Me… Now
- Laura Jane Grace, Gap In My Head
- Idles, TANGK
- Grandaddy, Blu Wav
- serpentwithfeet, GRIP
- Black Artwork Jazz Collective, Fact to Energy
- Molly Lewis, On the Lips