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As the first anniversary of the Charlottesville protest nears, cities like Memphis are wrestling with what to do with the controversial statues once they've been taken down.

The performances of this trailblazing transgender singer — once radically visible, now long hidden — have been likened to tornadoes. A new box set is a document of a career that never followed rules.

Vocalist Brianna Thomas talks with WBGO’s Lezlie Harrison about touring with Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Next Generation Jazz Stars with ‘Songs We Love’ program.

WBGO’s Lee Mergner speaks with the Chilean American singer and songwriter Claudia Acuña about her new album Duo on Ropeadope

WBGO’s Nicole Sweeney talks with Louis Cato—multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and leader of the house band for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert—about his new album, Reflections.

An outsized number of jazz heavyweights call Houston and its surrounding area home — here, they speak of the situation down south and their concerns for its future.

The composer's magnetically powerful Fire Shut Up in My Bones lands with a force of authenticity, a too-rare window into Black life in an operatic setting.

Spreading the gospel of jazz in Saudi Arabia with Janis Siegel & the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz

Critic Will Hermes listens to the new Bjork cd titled Vespertine. The music composed on her laptop computer is full of unusual rhythms and textures. (4:45) The cd Vespertine, by Bjork, is on Elektra records.

The Carolinas are known for bluegrass, not funk. But during the late '60s and early '70s, numerous bands from the area recorded regionally released funk 45s. Take a listen to some of the rarest and heaviest tracks.