The Cuban saxophonist, clarinetist and composer Paquito D?Rivera performed a first-time run of shows with his new band.

On this week?s playlist, releases by A Filial, Jim McAuley, Louis Moholo-Moholo and Miles Davis.

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Mr. Hubbard dazzled audiences and critics alike with his virtuosity, his melodicism and his infectious energy.

This year the holiday has been scaled back, but that doesn?t mean there?s nothing to celebrate. The Times?s pop and jazz critics offer their choices of the best New Year?s Eve events in New York.

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The best of this year?s rock, pop and jazz albums include releases by Metallica, Bennie Maupin, Rudresh Mahanthappa and Gonzalo Rubalcaba.

Music by Lil Wayne, Bon Iver, Guillermo Klein y Los Gauchos, Lionel Loueke and Jamey Johnson top this list of the best in rock, pop and jazz this year.

General Motors will withdraw as the lead sponsor of the Montreal International Jazz Festival, one of the biggest and most prestigious in the world, because of the crisis in the auto industry. G.M. has contributed about 10 percent of the festival?s $25 million annual budget but will not renew its current five-year sponsorship contract, which expires after the 30th-anniversary season next summer, said Alain Simard, president of the festival?s parent company, L?Équipe Spectra. ?We have a year and ...

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Mr. Cohen?s second set on Wednesday at the Jazz Standard was much more turbulent than the music on his new record,?Flood,? and a good deal more gripping.

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