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Celebrate the year of the dragon with music by influential Chinese composers active in the U.S.

East meets West in rarely heard piano concertos by some of Azerbaijan's best composers.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra crafts a sly take on a ubiquitous video-game staple.

Isbin's new album features collaborations with Vai, Stanley Jordan and Heart's Nancy Wilson.

Conductor Marin Alsop investigates the alluring power behind the grand opening of Also Sprach Zarathustra.

Russell plays with the simple, sultry jazz standard "Romance in the Dark" in unexpected ways.

A new album by Cappella Amsterdam uncovers rarely heard music by the quirky Czech master.

Thelonious Monk, who would have been 91 on Thursday, wrote many great songs. But a great many covers of his music wind up butchered by interpreters who seem not to understand it. From the scores of full-length tributes, here are five which demonstrate the good sense to keep Monk weird.

As opposed to the hard-bop sound dominant on the East Coast during the '50s, the West Coast sound was a bit mellower and more lyrical, with blended harmonies and more interest in composition and arrangement than improvisation. In these five songs, you'll hear all the definitive aspects of the West Coast jazz sound.

Martin Luther King Jr. opened the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival with these words: "Jazz speaks for life." The 1960s civil-rights movement inspired blues and jazz songs about the setbacks, hardships and hard-won victories that moved (and that continue to move) America closer to racial equality.