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Two new offerings show her versatility on clarinet and tenor sax. On Poetica, the Tel Aviv-born New Yorker leads a small jazz combo and a string quartet. Then there's Noir, a CD that celebrates a modified big-band sound.

Kate McGarry is an equal opportunity vocalist. On her new CD, she revamps jazz standards with hints of popular music, and infuses her natural jazz instincts into pop, folk and original compositions.

Erik Friedlander's Block Ice & Propane contains ballads and hymns to a life most Americans could make common cause with, along with people who relate to what is most nomadic in America.

By the early 1930s, Louis Armstrong had already revolutionized jazz. Through the next four decades, he would continue to reinvent himself. Along the way, he produced landmarks of the 20th century in American music and entertainment.

The soulful singer-songwriter talks about her new album, The Orchard, during a studio performance chat. Wright opens up about her music, her life, and what's next for her recording career.

The Dixie Hummingbirds came together in the '20s to sing gospel music. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band rose in the '70s to dance in the Crescent City streets. At the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, they sing, praise, and parade together.

Hiromi Uehara is a brilliant young pianist from Japan, by way of the Berklee College of Music. Her exciting mixture of musical genres and high-energy playing are made even more thrilling by her impressive technique and complex ideas. Hear her in an interview and performance on Piano Jazz.

For five years, Down Beat has named Joey DeFrancesco the industry's top jazz organist. In addition to enjoying a successful solo career, he's also played in bands with Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, and Pat Martino, to name a few. Hear an interview and a solo performance from KPLU.

Conduction has one meaning in physics ... and another in music. Jazzman Butch Morris talks with Farai Chideya about his own style of improvisation, called conduction. His latest CD is titled Nublu Orchestra.

The Pine Leaf Boys, a twentysomething band from Lafayette, La., brings youthful energy to traditional Cajun music. The group stuck it out in the region after Hurricane Katrina by playing whatever clubs are open, and received a Grammy nomination for its second album, Blues de Musicien.