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'Fresh Air' Remembers Jazz Guitar Great Bucky Pizzarelli

By Terry Gross • Apr 3, 2020

TERRY GROSS, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Today, we're going to remember three people from the music world who died this week of the coronavirus.

Branford And Wynton Marsalis Reflect On Their Father, Jazz Patriarch Ellis Marsalis

By Terry Gross • Apr 3, 2020

TERRY GROSS, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR.

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'Fresh Air' Remembers Fountains Of Wayne Co-Founder Adam Schlesinger

By Terry Gross • Apr 3, 2020

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Bill Withers, Singer-Songwriter Of 'Ain't No Sunshine,' Has Died At Age 81

By Anastasia Tsioulcas • Apr 3, 2020

Bill Withers, the sweet-voiced baritone behind such classic songs as "Ain't No Sunshine," "Lean on Me" and "Use Me" has died. Withers was 81 years old. According to a family statement given to the Associated Press, he died Monday in Los Angeles due to heart complications.

Frank Ocean Drops New Music With Singles 'Dear April' And 'Cayendo'

By Jon Lewis • Apr 3, 2020

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If there is any pop star that is perfectly suited to our current moment — someone who works in isolation, rarely appears in large public spaces and communicates mostly through occasion

Roberta Flack On The Calming Power Of Rainer Maria Rilke

By Roberta Flack • Apr 3, 2020

Our Daily Breather is a series where we ask writers and artists to recommend one thing that's helping them get through the days of isolation during the coronavirus pandemic.

Who: Roberta Flack

Where: New York, N.Y.

Recommendation: Reading Ranier Maria Rilke

Jesca Hoop: Tiny Desk Concert

By Bob Boilen • Apr 3, 2020

Jesca Hoop last appeared at the Tiny Desk as a duet with Sam Beam (Iron & Wine) in the spring of 2016. They sang songs from their collaborative record Love Letters For Fire. This time around, Jesca Hoop came to the Tiny Desk with just her guitars, her lovely voice, and brilliant poetic songs. She has a magical way with words, and she opened her set with "Pegasi," a beautiful song about the wild ride that is love, from her 2017 album Memories Are Now.

Chicago Rapper G Herbo Pivots To Vulnerability — And Scores A Hit

By Frannie Kelley • Apr 2, 2020

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Cristina Monet Zilkha, Singer Who Fused Punk's Sneer To Disco's Bounce, Dead At 61

By Matthew Perpetua • Apr 2, 2020

Cristina Monet Zilkha, the singer and arts critic who died on Wednesday at the age of 61, was a missing link in pop music history. Her death was announced in a post from Michel Esteban, the co-founder of her longtime label, ZE.

Bucky Pizzarelli, Jazz Guitarist And Prolific Session Musician, Dead At 94

By Nate Chinen • Apr 2, 2020

Bucky Pizzarelli, a tasteful sage of jazz guitar who spent the first phase of his career as a prolific session player and the last phase as a celebrated patriarch, died on Wednesday in Saddle River, N.J. Guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli, his oldest son and regular musical partner, said the cause was the coronavirus. He was 94.

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