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Creative director Ben Jaffe discusses the band's new album — titled That's It! — and spotlights four live songs, recorded live at City Winery in New York City.

The singer and songwriter grew up with Celtic and pop music in her home, and after discovering Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans, she became known as a folksy jazz vocalist. She visits the program along with keyboardist Gary Versace.

Latin jazz works best when the musicians involved are as fluent in Afro-Cuban rhythms as they are in the deep grooves and advanced harmonics of bebop. A man with a powerful interest in both the past and the future, Arturo O'Farrill has that pedigree in his DNA.

The jazz pianist's powerful 1976 album I Remember Bessie conveys a profound sense of loss.

The 24-year-old tenor sax player is the first female instrumentalist to take home the annual prize for young musicians.

The annual jazz competition for young musicians, which featured saxophonists in 2013, was a bit predictable — at least in the semifinal round. But given the particular displays of talent on stage, is that necessarily a bad thing?

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

When Bryce Dessner of The National and Clogs wrote his first piece for string quartet, it was premiered by one of the great ensembles, the Kronos Quartet. Watch the video premiere of Dessner's 'Aheym,' with kinetic imagery by artist Matthew Ritchie.

Watch a Galician bagpiper and her trio take the traditionally Celtic sound of her bagpipes in an entirely new, wild and wonderful direction.

For conductor Marin Alsop, Bernstein's idiosyncratic Second Symphony — inspired by W.H. Auden's poem The Age of Anxiety — is a musical quest to answer life's big questions with time out to throw a hip-swinging party.