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Exclusive Content Lee Mergner talks to Maria Muldaur about her new collaboration with New Orleans’ Tuba Skinny, and Michael J. West selects 10 outstanding Horace Silver recordings in our latest JazzTimes 10. Plus album and book reviews, obituaries, and much more. JT News Among the 2021 inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is pioneering singer/songwriter and poet Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011), who made politically potent music in the 1970s that fused jazz with R&B and who—although he preferred to refer to himself as a “bluesologist”—is widely regarded as one of the earliest rappers. The induction ceremony will take place on October 30 in Cleveland, Ohio. Audio & Video Our new performance series Jazz in Europe, hosted by guitarist Dekel Bor, introduces a world audience to some of the most impressive voices on the…