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The jazz producer put artists like Ella Fitzgerald into concert halls while striking a blow for civil rights.

Hear an excerpt from a brilliant new recording of music by one of today's most essential composers — it's an early contender for Best Album of 2012.

On her new album, the violinist teams up with herself as she plays her two Stradivarius instruments.

From a postmodern take on caroling to a gloriously loopy 'Sleigh Ride,' videos that sing out with classical holiday cheer.

A collection of pop standards, Kisses on the Bottom takes a breezily good-natured look back. Only McCartney's instantly recognizable voice tethers the collection to any modern musical era.

From the lighthearted and fancy to the haunting and grotesque, NPR station WDUQ highlights some spooky Halloween music you can listen to all year long. Hear jazz vocalists conjure different ghosts out of classic tunes, while horn players coax the demons out of their instruments.

The New York pianist combines uplifting elegance with jaw-dropping chops, on everything from ragtime to bebop and beyond. He turned 85 this week, but he's still performing, writing and teaching. Hear five examples of his many talents.

Caustic, ugly, gurgling, putrid filth that wanders a post-apocalyptic landscape — with jazz influences!

A haunting program of early a cappella vocal works focused on death, loss and the sobering prospect of having to face one's own mortality.

A revered group delivers perfectly balanced performances of three string quartets Haydn wrote to "sell" his music to a much wider public.