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Pianist Brad Mehldau's newest album, Ride into the Sun, is a loving tribute to the music of Elliott Smith. Mehldau sat down with WRTI's Julian Booker to discuss the new album, his history with the late singer-songwriter, and more.

Before SuperBlue hits World Cafe Live on Sept. 23, singer Kurt Elling and guitarist Charlie Hunter talked with WRTI about their new album and evolving rapport as a band.

At 81, bassist and composer Buster Williams has had a truly legendary career — and he's hardly slowing down. He spoke recently with WRTI's Greg Bryant.

Performing Eartha Kitt's music, the jazz singer says, isn't just hero worship: It's a window into how power, seduction and vulnerability intertwine.

Like his father, Warren Shadd was a jazz musician and a piano technician. Then he decided to build a prototype instrument, went to a gospel music convention, and suddenly had more than 1,000 buyers.

Countless books have been published on the life of Billie Holliday. British writer Julia Blackburn tries a different tack — in her book With Billie, she collects a series of interviews of some of those who knew the great jazz singer personally.

Ahead of this year's Jazz Philadelphia Summit, bassist and bandleader Gerald Veasley speaks with WRTI's Josh Jackson.

A selection of 25 deep, joyful, rewarding albums from every genre, out of every corner of the world, from the first six months months of 2014, picked by NPR Music.

Joan Myers Brown—founder and artistic director of the internationally renowned Black dance company, PHILADANCO!—was on tour in Switzerland with 15 young…