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Take a New-Orleans-style brass band, then shrink it: That's the general principle of how the trombonist's band makes a joyful noise with only four members, his sousaphone, and attitude.

A guitarist who sounds like no other, Halvorson can both astound and confound, with craggy phrasing, strange pitch-bends and pedal effects galore. She arrives at Newport as a bandleader.

Among the most influential jazz composers ever, the saxophonist turns 80 this year. He returns to Newport to celebrate, and his old friend Herbie Hancock also swung through to mark the occasion.

Kevin Puts won the Pulitzer Prize for his opera Silent Night. He's written concertos and lots of other music, but he says writing a symphony is a particularly moving experience: "I need a private place where I can express the spiritual, the epic, the heartbreaking without shame or embarrassment."

The singer-songwriter and guitarist plays a couple of Gershwin tunes with host Marian McPartland.

Duke's career spanned five decades and he always straddled the line between disparate genres, collaborating with artists such as Miles Davis, Barry Manilow and Frank Zappa.

The legend of the ghostly ship condemned to wander the oceans forever has fascinated opera lovers - and more recently, movie lovers - for hundreds of…

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

Heath joins host Marian McPartland and bassist Rufus Reid for an hour of unforgettable talk and music, including "You've Changed" and Heath's most famous tune, "Gingerbread Boy."

Donny McCaslin is an imposingly tall fellow and one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet — and who wields a sax like few others. The audience didn't know what hit 'em in this live morning performance.