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The Living Daylights are a young trio from Seattle that mix jazz, rock, and Eastern European influences to create music that's hard to categorize. Some critics have described it as jazz-rock fusion...but it's much more edgy than its' 1970's predecessor. Living Daylights' new CD is called, Electric Rosary. Marcie Sillman, of member station KUOW, has a profile. (7:45) Electric Rosary, by the Living Daylights is on Liquid City Records, catalog number LQC 35454.

Prolific jazz pianist and composer Uri Caine has a new recording: Uri Caine Ensemble Plays Mozart.

Morris Robinson, a singer with the Metropolitan Opera, returns to his musical roots on his new CD, Going Home. It combines Robinson's rich bass voice with jazzy arrangements of the gospel songs of his youth.

The Bird and the Bee's "I'm A Broken Heart" functions as a great big open wound of a song, a tale of heartbreak that doesn't sound at all heartbroken. Inara George's feathery voice helps render the song eerie and effective, and a miracle of restraint besides.

Bluesman John Hammond has a new recording out: Push Comes to Shove. After decades of playing the blues, he has only recently begun writing his own songs.

Lorraine Gordon is the keeper of New York's historic Village Vanguard. Recently, Gordon published a set of memoirs, the recollections of a woman who was married to two famous men of jazz.

Like many at the Fania label, salsa bandleader Ray Barretto recorded quickly and often: Barretto Power is one of four albums he released in 1972. Some, inevitably, are duds, but this one is incandescent, exemplifying the label's genre-crossing creativity.

Alternative country band Son Volt has a new record out, their second release after a seven-year hiatus. Son Volt is a loose collective of musicians orbiting around Jay Farrar, a St. Louis-based singer/songwriter. Their latest CD is The Search.

The Glaswegian pop-rock band sounds like the next big-time Britpop sensation, an "it" band to follow Oasis and others who've translated European media hype into U.S. success. Of course, it doesn't hurt that anyone who's seen an iTunes commercial has heard "Flathead" about 10,000 times.

Composer and pianist Robert Glasper grew up listening to his mother sing in churches and night clubs in Houston. On In My Element, Glasper delivers his brand of jazz to a hip-hop generation.