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This was the year of sliding doors as live venues reopened from the coronavirus pandemic, when Béyonce and Drake almost single-handedly salvaged the safe spaces and sweaty traces of house music, and where Latin figures from Bad Bunny and Rosalía to Lucrecia Dalt and Mabe Fratti stretched out at the experimental borders of pop. This was the year of...

Tributes, reminiscences, and paid dues head up the playlist this week, as Elucid follows his stellar work with Billy Woods as one half of Armand Hammer with I Told Bessie in loving memory of his paternal grandmother, Moor Mother elevates the wide intervals and dazzling harmonics of the great trumpeter Woody Shaw, and Heroes Are Gang Leaders continue to...