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Bob Dylan, sing-songwriter and Nobel laureate, has spent a career confounding expectations. What, then, should one expect of his new book, The Philosophy of Modern Song? Firstly, “modern song” should read “American modern song”, since almost all of the 66 songs discussed by Dylan are American. And by “modern”, we…

Bob Dylan, sing-songwriter and Nobel laureate, has spent a career confounding expectations.

In the first citywide singing contest, Chicago Sings Karaoke, Jason E. Jackson beat out 540 others to take the top prize of $5,000. Mayor Lori Lightfoot belts out ‘Dancing in the Street.’

As the ebullient husband-and-wife singing team who head the Nashville, Tennessee-based band The War and Treaty, Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter are happy to discuss the joy their wonderfully soulful music brings them and their audience.

The Anacortes, Washington-based DIY hero takes us through his week in listening, from a “sexually suggestive” EDM song by Pickle to a Nina Simone record picked out by a jazz-loving child

Seven years after her debut album, the London based rapper is finally getting the industry recognition she deserves.

We talk to the star ahead of the Jazz FM Awards and her appearance at the EFG London Jazz Festival

An eye-opening biography of Raine Spencer; an exciting counterfactual novel set in postwar Britain; and Warren Ellis’s witty account of devotion

‘Diva’ has good, neutral and bad connotations – but as singers from Maria Callas to Beyoncé have shown, it is a trait of sheer excellence

Armed with just a passion for jazz, Taylor became a producer and the owner of the world’s most successful jazz label, working with everyone from John Coltrane to Nina Simone

The Grammy-winning singer covers hits by Nina Simone and Billie Holiday. Plus: grave consequences in BBC Four’s Norwegian oil boom drama. Here’s everything to watch this evening