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Musicians Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis, two New Orleans natives, have been friends for years — back to the days when Connick took piano lessons from Marsalis's father, Ellis.

JC Hopkins and Queen Esther talk about their new album, Under a Brooklyn Moon. The JC Hopkins Biggish Band does, indeed, hark back to big band and other, earlier forms of jazz.

Ed Gordon talks smooth jazz with one of the biggest names in the genre, saxophonist Kim Waters. His new CD is All for Love.

The legendary jazzman turns 87 on July 31, 2005. He and his trio have just released a new CD, For My Father, and he joins John Patitucci and Jack De Johnette for the Great Jazz Trio's upcoming CD, S'Wonderful.

Scott Simon talks with jazz guitarist John Scofield about his album That's What I Say, on which he plays the music of Ray Charles.

This spring, bassist and composer Dave Holland has been touring with his Big Band, and he's released a new recording with the ensemble. The CD is called Overtime, and it's out on his own label, Dare2Records. Holland tells Liane Hansen about swinging with a big-band sound.

The summer of 2005 may not go down in history as another Summer of Love, but Woodstock's legacy includes a summertime routine of music festivals across the country. Weekend Edition Sunday music director Ned Wharton lists some of the best bets.

Robin Meloy Goldsby has spent decades making "pleasant and unobtrusive" background music as a cocktail lounge piano player. Now she steps front and center with a memoir called Piano Girl: Lessons in Life, Music, and the Perfect Blue Hawaiian.

Celebrated cabaret singer Bobby Short has died at the age of 80 from leukemia. NPR's Ed Gordon remembers the performer who sang for more than three decades at New York's Carlyle Hotel.

Felix Contreras reflects on his four-part series on the plight of aging jazz artists, and how he it came about.