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Don Preston is a jazz pioneer in the use of synthesizers, and former keyboardist with the Mothers of Invention, as well as a keyboard player with Frank Zappa's band. He'll be in the... (episode)
Saxophonist Branford Marsalis has created a CD titled “Romare Bearden Revealed.” Performing with his quartet, Marsalis pays tribute to Bearden's remarkable collages of blues and jazz ... (episode)
Each Memorial Day, ceremonies across the country echo with the sound of a plaintive bugle call, played to honor those who died in America's wars. That bugle call is known as "Taps," a... (episode)
The husband-and-wife team of Michael McKean and Annette O'Toole have contributed to such wacky Christopher Guest mock-umentaries as "A Mighty Wind" and "This is Spinal Tap." But for y... (episode)
Ethereal-voiced Brazilian singer Paula Morelenbaum spent 10 years traveling the globe and recording with maestro Antonio Carlos Jobim in his Banda Nova. But she doesn't sing your fath... (episode)
The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition got underway this past weekend in Fort Worth, Texas. Considered to be the world's pre-eminent piano competition, it takes place every f... (episode)
Classical cellist Matt Haimovitz recently toured the country performing in honky-tonk bars, jazz clubs and even a pizza parlor. Today, he joins us along with the composer David Sanfor... (episode)
The D.C.-based groove duo Thievery Corporation join us in support of their new release, The Cosmic Game. Issued on their own record label, the disc combines dub reggae, funk, bangara,... (episode)
Before crossover became a fashionable record-biz term, opera singers were crossing over into the world of jazz and American popular song. In the 1950s, the American soprano Eileen Far... (episode)
Bruce Springsteen's new record, Devils and Dust, comes as part of a long tradition of singing about the working class, from Woody Guthrie to Johnny cash to Bob Dylan. Today on the sh... (episode)