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Lakecia Benjamin stepped out on faith to produce her latest work. So much so that she exhausted her savings to bring it to fruition.A saxophonist whose…

With time together on their side, singer and composer Becca Stevens teams up with her husband and Attacca Quartet violist, Nathan Schram, to perform a brooding version of "I Will Avenge You."

Tim Lefebvre and Rachel Eckroth are an enigmatic couple who elude genre. Watch them perform a stripped-down duet from their LA home.

Editors ROBERT GOTTLIEB and ROBERT KIMBALL have collaborated on the new book –Reading Lyrics— (Pantheon Books), an anthology of some of the most important lyricists of the last century, including the lyrics of George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Dorothy Field, Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer, and more. The book covers the time period 1900-1975. ROBERT GOTTLIEB is the author of –Reading Jazz,— and ROBERT KIMBALL is the editor of complete lyrics collections of Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, and Lorenz Hart. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

Sleepy Brown's "Margarita" lays out a hooky fusion of hip-hop, jazz and mid-'70s midnight-hour soul. At first, Brown's liquid falsetto may take listeners back to the roller rink, but over time, "Margarita" sounds less retro than cutting edge — another step in the ongoing maturation of hip-hop.

Amy Winehouse is a young Londoner who draws on the musical past while telling tales about love and ex-lovers. She combines '60s R&B and soul, blues and jazz. With a stack of black hair, an athletic trainer's body and a unique personal style, her look is as arresting as her subject matter.

The boisterous, California-based acid-jazz collective Greyboy Allstars delves deep into vintage soul on "How Glad I Am." Drawing on a snazzy groove, chicken-scratch guitar riffs and fatback horns, the song brings to mind the loose funk of Charles Wright's 103rd Street Rhythm Band.

Detroit-based musician Kem has hit the No. 1 spot on urban and R&B music sales charts with "I Can't Stop Loving You," a single song from his latest self-produced CD Album II. Ed Gordon talks to Kem about making jazz-influenced music on his own terms.

The daughter of sitar master Ravi Shankar and sister of Grammy-winning jazz singer Norah Jones, Anoushka Shankar has an impeccable musical pedigree. On her new CD, Rise, she mixes a range of styles and instruments to create a sensual, ethereal sound.

In the '70s, Ethopia's capital, Addis Ababa, was awash in a hypnotic blend of Ethiopian rhythms, American jazz and European pop. When the ruler Haile Selassie died, so did the music scene. Now the Ethiopian sound is re-emerging — in New York.