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Studio recordings from 1959 make a strong case for that year as one of the best ever for jazz. Now, a large set of 50-year-old live recordings from the Newport Jazz Festival have been released online. WBGO's Josh Jackson and The New York Times' Ben Ratliff select some choice highlights.

For more than a half-century, a certain idyllic seaside town in Rhode Island has been synonymous with jazz. These five recordings from 1964 — featuring Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz, Max Roach, Ben Webster and Dave Brubeck — prove why.

In a ceremony held Tuesday at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, the National Endowment for the Arts presented the country's highest awards for jazz artistry and advocacy. Hear a recording of the entire event, featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

This week offers an embarrassment of riches in Philadelphia, with a jam-packed schedule of live classical music in nearly every shape and size imaginable. Zev Kane has all the details, in Fanfare.

A multi-instrumentalist in high demand, Morgan Guerin enlisted singer Debo Ray and emcee Kokayi for the first single from his forthcoming album, 'Tales of the Facade.'

This week, Moment's Notice hails two top organ trios — one with Larry Goldings, the other with Pat Bianchi — as well as marquee gigs by pianist Emmet Cohen and drummer Cindy Blackman Santana.

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a program of Mozart and Price, plus a world premiere by French-Argentine composer Esteban Benzecry. Yannick Nézet-Séguin is on the podium, and welcomes his frequent collaborator, Hélène Grimaud, as piano soloist.

Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia's Baroque Orchestra, performs 'Juditha Triumphans' on March 16, with WRTI's Meg Bragle in the title role. The fascinating history behind Vivaldi's oratorio still carries lessons for us today.

"The rhythm is really what makes it magical," says pianist Marcus Roberts of Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue,' first heard a century ago. Before he performed the piece with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Roberts stopped by WRTI to talk about its legacy with Nate Chinen.

The pioneering Japanese-American conductor who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for nearly decades died Tuesday.