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Sheldon, who died Dec. 27, sang with Benny Goodman and was bandleader and sidekick for Merv Griffin's talk show for many years. Originally broadcast in 1993.

This month marks the 10 year anniversary of the start of the financial crisis and market crash.It was September 15th, 2008 when Lehman Brothers filed for…

"Bright Moments" was both an album title and a mantra for the inimitable multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk. His widow, Dorthaan Kirk, was the…

For Let Me Tell You 'Bout It, Pianist John Chin talks about Anything Mose, a Mose Allison tribute he made with singer-songwriter Richard Julian.

An expanded version of jazz saxophonist John Coltrane's A Love Supreme has been released. Music reviewer Tom Moon says the set, which includes alternate studio takes and a live recording, gives insight into the musician's creative drive.

In Anouar Brahem's native Tunisia, the oud is known today mainly in the context of loud and large ensembles that leave it all but buried in a dervish of sound. But Brahem highlights the stringed instrument in a delicate, often introspective context. On his new CD, Le pas du chat noir, the oud is part of an unlikely trio including piano and accordion. He talks with Liane Hansen on Weekend Edition Sunday.

New York City's heroes are traditionally celebrated way downtown, at City Hall Park. But at the J&R Music Festival, drum hero Roy Haynes leads the celebrations. Here, the octogenarian drives his Fountain of Youth band through a characteristically hard-driving set.

Tigran Hamasyan knows his way around a dreamscape. As a pianist and composer, he draws inspiration from jazz, folkloric and classical sources, in ways…

“Jazz music is the perfect metaphor for democracy.”So declares Wynton Marsalis — trumpeter, composer, Jazz at Lincoln Center artistic director — in a…

For their third collaborative effort as In Common, tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III and guitarist Matthew Stevens brought in two NEA Jazz Masters and a celebrated peer.