Once in New York, Mr. Virelles began working with masters such as trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and fellow up-and-comers like trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson.

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Wadada Leo Smith's "Ten Freedom Summers, " which paired the trumpeter's jazz quartet with a chamber orchestra, was a 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist for music.

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Other finalists included previous winner Aaron Jay Kernis for classical composition "Pieces of Winter Sky" and jazz musician Wadada Leo Smith for "Ten Freedom Summers, " a 10-part examination of the civil rights movement.

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Nearly a decade after Hammersley included it in an article for his then-employer, The Guardian newspaper, roughly 40 million or so people in the US alone download podcasts a year and the technology has unleashed a new era of small mini-podcast moguls, from Adam Carolla and Kevin Smith to Leo Laporte to Dan Benjamin.

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