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In this week's StoryCorps, twins married to twins talks about how they fell in love.

No one in jazz was as far out and far in as tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler. Far out in terms of how he improvised. Far in, in terms of the songs he wrote to improvise on.

Throughout his 60-year career, Max Roach redefined jazz drumming by dividing rhythms in new ways and creating a wide palette of colors. Always the innovator, he extended possibilities for drummers, and helped develop modern jazz.

Singer Kelly Willis says she "had something to prove" with Translated from Love, her first CD in five years. She hopes people do a "double take" when listening to the disc, which includes a cover of an Iggy Pop song.

Former graphic designers Gaspard Auge and Xavier de Rosnay met by chance and discovered a shared love of dance music. Together, they put down their design tools, picked up skills at remixing and audio editing, and created their own sound.

Lynne's latest album is a tribute to Dusty Springfield — nine covers and one song inspired by The White Lady of Soul. Lynne talks about her approach to the songs, her respect for Springfield, and how much whiskey she had to drink to take on songs originally recorded by her idol.

She's working with refracted echoes of sounds that came before, but Kimbra makes them golden on her second album. Throughout The Golden Echo, she has a grand time testing the limits of her music.

The soul singer's new collection of holiday songs seems destined to become a revisited classic.

J. Spaceman makes a living room sound like a cathedral because, well, he didn't have a choice.

David Byrne's first solo album since 2004 is a brilliantly brainy attempt to make some sense of this inexplicable, mind-bending world.