Welcome to New Music Friday, your one place to discover the biggest new song, album and DVD releases. Let's start with this week's singles, which starts with a surprise release from Lana Del Rey ...

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Jazz was no longer carefree, happy-faced, radio-friendly music functioning as an escapist soundtrack, but had become something deeper and almost visceral. Musicians the likes of Parker and ...

The data displayed for this chart goes back to 1994, however we hope to be able to offer deeper historic information at a future point ...