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The Turtle Island String Quartet consists of classically trained musicians who turned to jazz. The quartet has bended the lines between classical, jazz, blues and world music for two decades.

Jason Isbell sings about his split from musician Amanda Shires on his latest album Foxes in the Snow. "What I was attempting to do is document a very specific time where I was going through a lot of changes," he says.

We asked 137 jazz journalists to pick their favorite albums that came out this year. Out of over 700 nominees, here are their collective top 50 picks, along with top finishers in the Latin jazz, vocal, debut and reissue categories.

Bobby Caldwell's smooth soul jam "What You Won't Do for Love" went to No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. It became a long-term standard and career-defining hit for Caldwell, who also wrote the song.

Sounds Choral this Sunday (6/5) pays tribute to Igor Stravinsky.

A Tempo this Saturday (6/3 at 7 pm) features a conversation with screenwriter and music educator Lille Gardner about her plans for an animated series about composers who were women or from other underrepresented groups.

A Tempo this Saturday (4/6 at 7 pm) looks at the third annual Silent Film Festival sponsored by the New School for Music Study, where more than 100 students will perform music to serve as the soundtrack for classic silent films.

This special concert broadcast Friday (1/3 at 8 pm) featuring performances by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra also previews the ensemble's upcoming celebration of long-time Music Director Rossen Milanov's 60th birthday. (This program will also air Monday Jan. 6 at 8 pm and Saturday Jan. 11 at 2 pm).

The new book Burning Down the Haus fastidiously traces the self-discovery of punks in the socialist dictatorship of East Germany, and the violence and repression they endured on the way to freedom.

The spring has been full of great TV. Here's what you might have missed.