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WRTI's Jeff Duperon attended the 2012 Detroit Jazz Festival. The 33rd year of the event, presented by Chrysler, featured a one-of-a-kind lineup of today’s…

The distinguished violinist Itzhak Perlman offers a glimpse into the classical Jewish Cantorial repertoire, and beloved liturgical and traditional works…

Jazz's most prestigious contest takes place this weekend — though not everyone agrees it deserves the prestige. Five former entrants, winners and semifinalists alike, reflect on what their experiences meant to them.

The freewheeling saxophonist and his small group from the 1970s came together for a live concert in 2007 — their first together in more than two decades. Now, a recording has been posthumously released on CD, and critic Kevin Whitehead says it's like they never went away.

Hear the music of an exciting young trumpeter from Havana, as well as a brief history of Cuban jazz.

Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.

Host Marian McPartland calls Dearie an "incandescent singer and pianist" whose "delicate, swinging style makes every song a musical gem." The vocalist and pianist died this past year of natural causes. Piano Jazz remembers her life and music in an archival interview and performance.

One of today's hottest conductors talks about a piece that's integral to his musical life: Stravinsky's earthshaking Rite of Spring, which Dudamel insists has not lost its power to shock in the century since it was written.

Conductor Marian Alsop muses on her mentor's most religious symphony, a work that raises more questions than it answers.

An especially musical episode features Preservation Hall, Little Freddie King and two Marsalises.