Tag: Anita Baker

• The Artists My Students Should Know

  A few weeks before school starts, I find myself thinking about music class. Not the usual things—repertoire, instrumentation, performances, projects, or what I want students to accomplish by the end of the year. Those things are always somewhere in the back of my mind. Lately, I have been thinking about something a little different: Which…

  Ed Castro

  August 21, 2026

  Music

  Anita Baker, Cannonball, Corinne Bailey Rae, Erykah Badu, Funk, fusion, George Benson, Grover Washington Jr., hip-hop, jazz, Maxwell, NY Times, Pop, R&B, Sade, soul, Sweetback, the Crusaders, the Yellowjackets, Weather Report, Wesley Morris