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Pete Seeger

"At 89"

Appleseed

A podcast disguised as an album, the quintessential American folk singer-activist’s "At 89" is an inspiring, 32-track patchwork of banjo solos, spoken reminiscences, classical adaptations, protest music, and folk songs recorded when Pete Seeger was actually only 88 years old.

"False From True" and other songs Seeger wrote during the late ’60s remain painfully apt today. Newer songs, such as "If It Can’t Be Reduced" and "If This World Survives," speak to modern concerns like sustainability and environmental brinksmanship.

Seeger sounds especially inspired when praising the natural splendor of his Hudson Valley home in New York—that is, when he’s not castigating General Electric for polluting that river with chemicals, as he does in "Throw Away That Shad Net (How Are We Gonna Save Tomorrow?)"

Milton Nascimento and Jobim Trio

"Novas Bossas"

Blue Note

Sensuous and popular Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento joins the Jobim Trio on a gorgeous album half-devoted to the songs of bossa nova pioneer Antonio Carlos ("Tom") Jobim, father and grandfather, respectively, to trio members Paulo (guitar) and Daniel Jobim (piano).

The quartet’s music is impeccably cool. Nascimento’s voice regularly drifts into an ethereal falsetto realm that Tom Jobim reportedly adored. Paulo Brago is a drummer’s drummer who backed Tom in the ’70s. Nascimento revives the beautiful "Tudo Que Você Podia Ser"—in English, “Everything That You Could Be,” and "Cais" (“Wharf”) with new arrangements, setting the stage for the seven Jobim classics, including the bossa masterpiece "Caminhos Cruzados" (“Crossroads”) and the downbeat samba "Esperança Perdida" (“Lost Hope”), that conclude this enchanting album of bossas old and new.