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Penguin Cafe folds in sounds from around the world and throughout music history — Africa, Kraftwerk, Brazil and Franz Schubert.

Enjoy a live performance from the trumpet virtuoso who's stretching modern jazz music to include flavors of hip-hop, trap and West African percussion.

What happens when cultural doors open between the U.S. and Cuba? Beautiful moments like this mix of Mozart and a Cuban classic — with Brooklyn pianist Simone Dinnerstein and an orchestra from Havana.

With the aid of motion capture technology, and an imaginative digital artist, the gestures of the London Symphony Orchestra's conductor are transformed into trippy new animations.

In Seattle, he books a club, teaches college and high-school kids, and leads a lot of different bands. So it makes sense that his new project was inspired by the locally born writer Richard Hugo.

David Lang was tasked with writing music for Michael Caine's character, an elderly composer who gets abruptly called out of retirement.

Carpenter performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. this week. Scott Simon speaks with the virtuoso musician about his latest tour.

Trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah and pianist Jason Moran recently spoke with NPR Music about their experiences as black men dealing with police — and those of jazz giants before them.

He has no signs, no store, no advertising. He's in his late 70s and makes all his instruments by hand. But, as percussionists around the world know, nothing sounds like a Cali Rivera cowbell.

A misunderstanding morphed into an exciting idea: Take 10 American composers to Cuba. Hear their Havana concert.