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Producer Derek Rath speaks with Hamilton Lee, drummer for the London-based musical collective Trans-Global Underground. The band blends hip-hop, trance, reggae, Indian classical and several other music forms in its new album, Impossible Broadcasting.

He's been awarded the 2005 Pianist of the Year award by the Jazz Journalist's Association, and he also received the first ever 2005 Playboy Magazine Jazz Artist of the Year. His new album is called Same Mother, which reflects the 30-year-old musician's current interest in the blues.

Lizz Wright burst on the scene two years ago with her debut CD Salt, and was hailed then as one of the brightest new voices in contemporary jazz. She talks about her sophomore record, Dreaming Wide Awake.

Pakistani singer Faiz Ali Faiz pays homage to the late great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with his new CD, Your Love Makes Me Dance. The five pieces on the album were either composed or performed by Nusrat. The genre is called qawwali, a kind of Islamic religious music. Banning Eyre has a review.

Music critic John Brady reviews Who's Your New Professor, the second solo CD by Chicago musician Sam Prekop, leader of the alternative rock band The Sea and Cake.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews two new releases: Coldplay's X&Y and Dressy Bessy's Electrified.

Robert Siegel talks with Norwegian Jazz Pianist Tord Gustavsen about the art of jazz improvisation and his new album The Ground.

On his latest album, Occasion, singer, pianist and actor Harry Connick Jr. teams up with jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis. Connick and Marsalis join guest host Frank Stasio to discuss the collaboration and play some songs from the album, which was released on Marsalis' label, Marsalis Music.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the new CD by hip-hop artist Lyrics Born. It's called Same !@#$ Different Day.

Chevalier's new novel follows one of the generation of "surplus women," who lost their men in World War I and had to make new lives for themselves — sometimes outside the bounds of convention.