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This image released by Uncommon Goods shows a cheese board designed to look like the most expensive, slick turntable, featuring a slate platter and hidden slicer in the one arm. (Uncommon Goods via AP)

A 2023 gift guide that will strike a chord: 10 ideas for the music lover in your life

From the obsessive record collector to the casual listener. The shower singers to the rock stars of tomorrow. There’s a music-inspired gift for everyone over the holidays. The challenge, of course, is in the decision making.
 
This image released by Verve Records/UMe shows “You’ve Got To Learn." by Nina Simone. (Verve Records/UMe via AP)

Nina Simone’s lost set at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival released as an album

 
FILE - Angelo Badalamenti performs at the David Lynch Foundation Music Celebration at the Theatre at Ace Hotel on April 1, 2015, in Los Angeles. Badalamenti, the composer best known for creating otherworldly scores for many David Lynch productions, from “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks” to “Mulholland Drive,” has died. He died of natural causes on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022, his family said in a statement. He was 85. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

‘Twin Peaks’ composer Angelo Badalamenti dies at 85

 
This cover image released by Nonesuch shows "Walking in the Dark" by Julia Bullock. (Nonesuch via AP)

Review: Julia Bullock walks her own path in solo album debut

 
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson attends a special screening of "Summer of Soul" at The Richard Rodgers Amphitheater at Marcus Garvey Park on Saturday, June 19, 2021, in New York. (Photo by Jason Mendez/Invision/AP)

In ‘Summer of Soul,’ a lost history reborn to play loud

 
This combination of photos shows promotional art for "No Sudden Move," streaming July 1 on HBO Max, left, and "The Tomorrow War," streaming July 2 on Amazon Prime. (HBO Max via AP, left, and Amazon via AP)

New this week: ‘No Sudden Move’ and ‘The Tomorrow War’

This week’s new entertainment releases include documentaries about celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck and another on a landmark 1969 Harlem concert series known as “Black Woodstock” that featured Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone.
 
This combination photo shows, from left, Chloe Bailey of the sister duo Chloe x Halle, rapper YBN Cordae and actor and activist Yara Shahidi, who will be featured in a new EP about the Black experience. “Music for the Movement Volume III – Liberated,” out on Friday, is the third volume in Disney’s four-part series of EPs honoring Black lives and social justice under a joint venture between Disney Music Group and The Undefeated, ESPN’s platform for exploring the intersections of race, sports and culture. (AP Photo)

Chlöe, Shahidi, Cordae part of Disney EP honoring Black life

Disney is celebrating this year’s Juneteenth with a new EP about the Black experience featuring actor and activist Yara Shahidi, Chlöe Bailey of Chloe x Halle and rapper YBN Cordae, who is donating his proceeds to students attending historically Black colleges and universities.
 
This image released by the Sundance Institute shows a scene from the documentary "Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)" by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson. The film will debut at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. (Sundance Film Festival via AP)

Questlove uncovers ‘Black Woodstock’ in his hit Sundance doc

A landmark 1969 Harlem concert series that he hadn’t heard of?
 
FILE - This undated photo provided by Nancy Pierce shows an interior room of the childhood home of jazz singer Nina Simone in Tryon, N.C. The childhood home of the iconic musician and civil rights activist will be indefinitely preserved in North Carolina. The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, that its African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, in partnership with World Monuments Fund and Preservation North Carolina, recently secured permanent protection of the singer-songwriter’s childhood home in Tryon. (Nancy Pierce via AP, File)

North Carolina home of Nina Simone gets permanent protection

TRYON, N.C. (AP) — The childhood home of iconic musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone will be indefinitely preserved in North Carolina.
 
This cover image released by Verve Records shows "Blackbirds" by Bettye LaVette. (Verve via AP)

Review: Bettye LaVette’s ‘Blackbirds’ celebrates Black women

Bettye LaVette, “Blackbirds” (Verve)

The wise intuition and emotional commitment of Bettye LaVette’s interpretative skills find an ideal setting on “Blackbirds,” a collection of songs mostly associated with Black women, from Nina Simone to Billie Holiday.
 
This cover image released by Verve/UMe shows "Fodder On My Wings" by Nina Simone. (Verve/UMe via AP)

Review: Reissue of 1982 Nina Simone disc a work of contrasts

Nina Simone, “Fodder On My Wings” (Verve/UMe)

Nina Simone’s “Fodder On My Wings” is an album of contrasts and extremes — personal traumas and world sounds, joy and despair, harmony and defiance, the carnal and the spiritual.
 
This image released by CBS shows Al Madrigal, left, and Pauley Perrette in a scene from the comedy "Broke," debuting on Thursday at 9:30 p.m. EDT. (Greg Gayne/CBS via AP)

New at home this week: ‘Onward,’ Nina Simone and ‘The Talk’

Epic adventures, exotic locales and cocktails mixed to order by bartenders — they may be largely off limits for the moment, but not on a device near you.
 

Hasty Pudding roasts Ben Platt, youngest Man of the Year

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Award-winning actor and musician Ben Platt took a quick jab at President Donald Trump late Friday while being honored by Harvard University’s famed Hasty Pudding Theatricals as its 2020 Man of the Year.
 
Alan Alda poses with the Life Achievement Award in the press room at the 25th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

‘Black Panther’ wins top honor at SAG Awards, ‘Maisel’ soars

NEW YORK (AP) — “Black Panther” took the top award at Sunday’s 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards, giving Ryan Coogler’s superhero sensation its most significant awards-season honor yet and potentially setting up Wakanda for a major role at next month’s Academy Awards.
 

Moody Blues, Cars, Bon Jovi light up 2018 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductions

Moody Blues, Cars, Bon Jovi light up 2018 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductions

CLEVELAND, Ohio – “It’s My Life.’'
 

Rock Hall 2018 class: Nina Simone, Bon Jovi, the Moody Blues

NEW YORK (AP) — Iconic singer Nina Simone and New Jersey rockers Bon Jovi lead the 2018 class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, which includes four first-time nominees.
 
The funeral procession for Las Vegas police officer Charleston Hartfield drives down the Las Vegas Strip Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, in Las Vegas. The off-duty police officer was one of 58 people killed when a gunman fired from the hotel into a crowded outdoor concert on Oct. 1. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

Off-duty officer killed in Vegas shooting left funeral notes

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — A Las Vegas police officer and U.S. Army veteran who was among 58 people killed in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history provided instructions ahead of time for those at his memorial not to mourn, a pastor told the crowd at his funeral on Friday.
 

Grammy Awards salute ‘Philly Sound’ legend Thom Bell

Kimberly C. Roberts Producer and songwriter Thom Bell, a pioneer of the world-renowned “Philly Sound,” is among a stellar group of musical icons being honored when “Great Performances,” in collaboration with the Recording Academy, presents “Grammy Salute to Music Legends 2017, the second annual all-