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A new 23-CD set explores the suave elegance of one of the most successful opera composers.

Garbarek helped the ECM label find its emerging voice 40 years ago. A new box set of early albums captures the saxophonist's forming sound — austere and astringent.

Formell performs epic music and poetry, magical and real, about the Afro-Caribbean experience.

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

Walker is an exciting presence on the jazz scene, singing with impeccable phrasing, a soulful swing and a warmly sensuous tone. She and host Marian McPartland spend a delightful hour talking about the jazz life and performing together on "The More I See You," "It Could Happen to You" and Walker's own tune, "Love Is."

The Atlanta Symphony struggles, a one-handed pianist graduates and the music of John Cage continues.

The jazz vocalist says that once an idea has been caught on tape, "it's never going to be quite as strong" as in that first moment. Her new, all-improvised album is called Spontaneous.

Now that Andsnes has a new daughter, he says he hears music a bit differently — with more freedom and an ear for "childlike beauty." Hear the pianist talk about fatherhood and play Granados and Grieg.

If you haven't listened to his music in a while, you might have forgotten: The country pioneer had swing. Here are five jazz artists out of many who have put their own spins on his music.

To mark the sesquicentennial of the great French composer, a French piano virtuoso spins his favorite Debussy recordings.