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Saxophonist Gerald Albright's latest album, Kicking It Up, combines new jazz, funk and R&B. Albright discusses the project with NPR's Tony Cox.

David Molpus speaks with blues/R&B singer and guitarist Robert Cray. He's currently touring the States, and his new cd, Shoulda Been Home was just released on Rykodisc (cat # RCD 10611).

Scott Aiges reviews the latest CD from Dr. John, the New Orleans musician who mixes up blues, jazz, R&B, and Afro-Caribbean funk. It's called Creole Moon. The label is Blue Note.

Recorded in 1977, Weather Report's Heavy Weather successfully integrates several genres of music. The track "Palladium," for example, combines acoustic and electronic jazz with Afro-Cuban Santeria rhythm. Don't miss the jazz standard, "Birdland."

With its fusion of funk, jazz, Afrobeats and R&B, the British band conveys a radical mission to choose joy.

Editors Greil Marcus and Werner Sollers curated this new anthology of essays about American culture

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rob McElhenney about the finale of Welcome to Wrexham, the Hulu docuseries that follows his and Ryan Reynolds' efforts to help a Welsh team.

Many of the books of poems coming out this year are sad, but also powerful; full of poets processing their lives, looking into pains both personal and political through the cracked glass of poetry.

In Cord Jefferson's directorial debut, Jeffrey Wright plays a frustrated author who echoes earlier Black protagonists in movies like Hollywood Shuffle and Bamboozled.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with "Rivals" star Danny Dyer. The series follows a group of upper-class Brits as they jostle for power and double-cross each other along the way.