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  • Summer Tunes for Black Music Month, Part 2
    We continue our three-part series of reports on the sounds of summer 2005 — this week, independent and small-label record company executives talk about music that shouldn't be overlooked.
  • Alison Brown Back in Bluegrass on 'Stolen'
    Alison Brown's new solo album, Stolen Moments, is a genre-hopping take on bluegrass. A former member of Alison Krauss's Union Station, Brown won a Grammy in 2001 for her duet with Bela Fleck, "Leaving Cottondale".
  • Jazz Guitarist Paul Brown and 'The City'
    Ed Gordon speaks with guitarist Paul Brown, who's moved from behind the mixing board as producer to center stage as a smooth jazz front man. Brown's latest CD The City hits record stores Tuesday.
  • Nadine Sierra in the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Met.
    Nadine Sierra was made for opera—and how we experience opera in the 21st century
    Star soprano Nadine Sierra's new album Made for Opera and her performance in the Met's new production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor provide new ways to think about opera through staples of the repertoire.
  • Terence Blanchard, in the Jazz 'Flow'
    Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard talks about his new, younger sound and his band's latest CD, Flow.
  • Dr. John, in a 2001 publicity photo.
    Dr. John, Always in the Right Place
    Malcolm "Mac" Rebennack's music evolved from psychedelic voodoo-rock in the 1960s to classic piano. He's still known for the 1973 single "Right Place, Wrong Time." (This interview was first broadcast in 1986 and 1988.)
  • The Campbell Brothers with John Medeski
    Renowned for their innovative "sacred steel guitar" sound, gospel band the Campbell Brothers teamed up with John Medeski on their latest release, Can You Feel It?. Medeski is a gifted organist best known for his band Medeski, Martin and Wood.
  • Raul Midon's CD blends R&B, folk, Latin music and jazz.
    Raul Midon's 'State of Mind'
    Raul Midon is a singer, composer and guitarist who straddles pop, R&B, folk, Latin and jazz. He tells Ashley Kahn about his career and his new CD State of Mind.
  • The Philadelphia Orchestra, 2021
    The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on WRTI: Yannick conducts Beethoven's 5th and Ravel's "Bolero"
    Join us on Sunday, May 15th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, May 16th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear Yannick Nézet-Séguin conduct the Orchestra’s historic reunion with live audiences in the concert hall in Fall, 2021 after the pandemic shutdown.
  • At 18, Eldar Djangirov is already a veteran jazz performer.
    Fast-Paced Jazz Piano in the Key of Eldar
    Pianist Eldar Djangirov plays like a seasoned jazz artist, but he's just 18 years old. He moved to Kansas City from his native Kyrgyzstan in 1998, drawn in part by the city's jazz history. He recently stopped by NPR's Studio 4A to talk to Liane Hansen about his music and rattle the keyboard.
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