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Uri Caine's latest merging of jazz and classical music is a politically charged work he wrote for the Brussels Philharmonic, featuring Dave Liebman on soprano saxophone. Read more in our Album of the Week review.

The beloved Philly brass band Snacktime brought the party to our studio, with a foot-stomping, head-bobbing tune called "Sweet Treat" — WRTI's Video of the Week, as we continue to celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month.

Tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III makes his Blue Note debut with an excellent cohort, and poise to spare. For WRTI's Album of the Week, here is our review.

Mary Lou Williams’ Zodiac Suite is an early landmark of jazz and classical music in dialogue. Pianist Aaron Diehl has devoted considerable energy to restoring her original orchestration, which he performs with The Philadelphia Orchestra this week.

Bassist Charlie Haden is known as a great jazz musician, but his lineage is all country: Growing up, he performed alongside his brothers and sister in the Haden Family Band, a country group led by parents, Carl and Virginia.

That's some key advice from Grammy-winning jazz bassist, composer and bandleader Christian McBride.

Though Bedrich Smetana lost his hearing in later life, he was able to write this whimsical opera, which tells an awkward story of rekindled romance.

The plot is wacky and not at all politically correct, but Rossini's cross-cultural opera shattered another stereotype: that of the damsel in distress.

An opera with a most unusual — and very disturbing — 'bad guy': a little old lady who believes that anyone who doesn't agree with her moral code must pay a terrible price.

Brooklyn verismo, courtesy of American composer William Bolcom: the trials of Italian immigrants — some of them illegal — in 1950s Red Hook.