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Melinda speaks with Olu Dara, trumpet player, composer, choreographer and singer, about his new release, Neighborhoods.

Critic Milo Miles reviews White African (Northern Blues label) by blues man Otis Taylor.

Roger Miller is a musical legend. No, we're not talking about Mr. "King of the Road." This is the Roger Miller who fronted the early '80's Boston band, Mission of Burma. Today, this Roger Miller is best-known for his work with the silent film ensemble, Alloy Orchestra. But he's also a composer who creates challenging music for his current duo with drummer Larry Dersch. They call their group, Binary System. Sean Cole, of member station WBUR, reports.The new recording by Binary System is called, Invention Box.It's on Atavistic Records, catalog # ALP 127 CD.

Percussionist Leon Parker talks about his version of the song Caravan, found on his new CD. (2:00) The Simple Life, by Leon Parker is on the Label M label. See www.labelm.com

Tom Vitale reports on another living legend — Carlos Santana and the reissue of a 30-year-old recording Divine Light, in which the guitarist performs the music of jazz icon John Coltrane.

This past week musicians from all over the world commemorated guitar great Django Reinhardt in New York City. Reinhardt died in 1953 but is reknowned for his fast, passionate guitar compositions. Lisa talks to Saxophonist James Carter who was there; his newest CD is called Chasin' the Gypsy, wherein he pays tribute to the "Hot Jazz" of 1920s and '30s Paris.

Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard was on top of the jazz world during the '60s and '70s. But personal setbacks left him unable to play and took him out of the limelight and off the stage. Hubbard died on Dec. 29, but in this story from 2001, he talked about attempting a comeback with an album called New Colors.

Pianist Bill Charlap, who has played the piano since early childhood, hails from a musical family. His mother, Sandy Stewart, was a popular singer of the 50s and 60s, and his father, Moose Charlap, composed most of the music for the 1954 musical Peter Pan. Liane talks with Charlap about his Blue Note Records release Written in the Stars. The CD features Peter Washington on bass and Kenny Washington on drums.

Lisa talks with photographer, musician and music collector John Cohen about his new CD called There Is No Eye: Music for Photographs. The CD includes 23 recordings of musicians Cohen has photographed since 1952. Cohen has recorded and photographed, among others, Doc Watson, Bob Dylan, Roscoe Holcomb and Alan Lomax. The Corcoran gallery in Washington D.C. is currently hosting an exhibition of his photographs that are also collected in a new book called, There Is No Eye. (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews 4x4 (WATT/ECM) the latest CD by pianist and composer Carla Bley.