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Linda talks with Andy Bey, a singer and piano player. Bey has been singing and playing boogie-woogie since he was a child. He became known for his powerful voice and piano work with Horace Silver and Max Roach. After a 20 year absence from recording, he has released a CD of ballads and standards.

During the '80s and '90s, it seemed as if Moffett was everywhere in the jazz scene, recording with then-up-and-comers and luminaries alike — all at the beginning of a long career.

Thomas Dorsey combined sacred and secular styles to create a revolution in music. His story is the latest in "Honky Tonks, Hymns and the Blues," a special 11-part weekly series on the creation of American musical traditions.

Williams was a dazzling player and a favorite at Fresh Air. She died March 10 at 73. We'll listen back to her 1997 performance and interview.

BBC radio host and DJ Gilles Peterson is famous in Britain for his compilation CDs of rare funk/soul/jazz tunes. Now Peterson is taking his act across the Atlantic with a new compilation CD of tunes by little-known American artists salvaged from the bins of used record shops.

Lost to us at 71, jazz pianist and vocalist Shirley Horn's slow pace and rich voice will be missed. She made more than 20 albums. Perhaps her most memorable effort was "Here's to Life."

Ed Gordon talks with jazz guitarist Kevin Eubanks. Besides heading the band on Jay Leno's Tonight Show, Eubanks has a successful jazz career of his own, and has been playing on tour with his own band for years.

Folk-music legend Odetta was a force in the 1960s push for social justice. Her passion inspired fellow musicians and activists such as Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Harry Belafonte. Odetta died Dec. 2, 2008, at the age of 77. Hear a 2005 interview.

B.B. King's loved ones gathered at a Southern California home recently to celebrate his 80th birthday with a backyard concert featuring performances from some of his closest friends.

Ten years after he began building his Masada Songbook, composer and saxophonist John Zorn has forever changed the definition of Jewish music.