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Musician Allen Toussaint is a native son of New Orleans. He plans to return in the New Year. He lost a piano the storm. As for his next one: "I'm going to put it on the second floor this time... we won't be flirting with water anymore."

Every time Andrew Hill takes a seat behind a piano, the jazz world takes note. "Time Lines" speaks to his brilliance at teetering between the worlds of the blues and the abstract. And it's one of the funkiest compositions in Hill's massive repertoire.

The New Orleans Social Club, a loose affiliation of famed New Orleans musicians, are trying to restore a bit of the city's musical heritage with a new CD — and in the process, restore a piece of their own lives washed away by Hurricane Katrina.

One day, musicologist John Work happened to record an obscure street singer's blues talent. Discovering that field recording leads commentator Bruce Nemerov to reflect on how the blues were marketed before World War II.

Following jazz great Ray Brown and funk's Bootsy Collins, Christian McBride is building on his predecessors' bass work. He McBride finds plenty of room to explore "the groove underneath — the bottom."

For all the song's double-entendres and social politics, Patricia Barber's "Narcissus" doubles as one of those sensual rhapsodies that seem perfect for a late night on some honky-tonk bar's jukebox.

In 1960s Communist Romania, violinist Ion Petre Stoican was struggling to establish himself in the Bucharest wedding market. But when he unwittingly helped snare a highly sought-after spy, Stoican asked for one reward: to record an album with the state-operated label, Electrecord.

Drummer Paul Motian has spent more than 50 years in music, working with jazz luminaries like Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk. At 75, he has a new CD of bebop jazz: Garden of Eden, featuring his own band.

Tom Verlaine shook up the music world with his punk-rock group Television in the mid-1970s. Can he do it again? He's giving it a shot with two new CDs — one an instrumental work featuring his influential guitar style — and a world tour.

Jazz violinist Regina Carter is currently traveling the globe promoting a new CD, I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey. She talks about discovering her instrument and her passion at an early age.