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Ray Charles was one of those rare musicians whose musical style blended many genres, drawing on jazz, rhythm and blues, gospel, country, and rock 'n' roll, to create a unique and soulful sound. Hear Charles play "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" before joining McPartland for "The Man I Love."

Sunday is Father's Day. If you're a dad, congratulations; these songs are for you. If you're a son or a daughter, here's a list of dad-friendly jazz songs to let your father know you're thinking of him.

The organizer of NPR Music's Jazz Critics Poll says that as the pillars of the jazz establishment have splintered, there's new space for music at the edges of the genre to find recognition.

WRTI's Mark Pinto, host of the Classical New Releases show, fills you in on the latest and the greatest classical music CDs every Saturday at 5 pm. Here…

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

Meet 18-year-old Collin Parker-Szekely of Abington, PA, pianist in the Advanced Study Myer Schwartz Piano Trio at Settlement Music School and cellist in the Temple Music Prep Center for Gifted Young Musicians Youth Chamber Orchestra.

Recent scandals have apparently cost Bo Xilai his job as Communist Party chief in the southwestern city of Chongqing. Bo had once seemed headed straight for China's top leadership body, but corruption allegations and an imbroglio involving his former right-hand man helped drive him from power.

The nostalgic holiday music you look forward to every year for Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year's is once again on WRTI. Check out what we have planned.

Jazz musicians find inspiration in many things. Himalayan art is not typically one of them. But at the Rubin Museum of Art, five top young pianists were all driven by something they saw.

The U.N.'s top torture official said Manning's solitary confinement violated the convention against torture.