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Colombian emigre Edmar Castaneda came to the U.S. as a teenager and fell in love with the music of Charlie Parker and Chick Corea. So he decided to use a traditional instrument of Colombia's cowboys to play his own form of pan-Latin jazz.

Atlantic editor Julie Beck is winding down "The Friendship Files," a years-long series of interviews with friends about their friendship. She talks to Ayesha Rascoe about what she's learned.

Eddie Van Halen and his brother Alex formed the band that bore their last name. It became a force in rock in the 1970s and 1980s, and Eddie became a guitar hero. He was 65.

While The Who performed inside Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum on Dec. 3, 1979, some two dozen people outside were injured and 11 died in a chaotic crush to get through the doors.

For the Perry siblings of Tupelo, Miss. — ages 9, 14 and 16 — making music involves making unique instruments from car parts. The young family band with astonishingly mature blues chops demonstrates its craft in NPR's Studio 4A.

The Latin percussionist's classic 1972 album captures one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century at his peak. Bobby Sanabria, himself an award-winning bandleader, discusses the music and career of "El Rey del Timbal," Tito Puente.

The Waco Brothers recently released their first album of original material in more than a decade. Rock critic Ken Tucker says the music on Going Down in History is "urgent, precise and pointed."

More than so many other kinds of music, jazz takes its tradition seriously. So it makes sense that so jazz musicians feel such visceral connections to their ancestors — and honor them in song. Hear cuts from four new albums.

In his new band, The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach plays immersive, funky R&B and soul that's embellished with velvety harmonies, hissy tape recordings and lip-curling attitude.

Emerging from the refugee camps of Sierra Leone's civil war, the Refugee All Stars have seen their fair share of hard times. But, as Banning Eyre finds on their latest album, Rise And Shine, the group's focus is on spreading a positive message of peace.