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Scott Simon talks with jazz guitarist John Scofield about his album That's What I Say, on which he plays the music of Ray Charles.

Singer-Songwriter Mike Doughty begins the first day of his self-proclaimed 'Small Rock World Tour' by taking caller questions and performing songs from his new album Haughty Melodic at NPR's Washington studios. Doughty is the former frontman for the group Soul Coughing.

In the past, Eisley has made music characterized by an off-center sway that's all about being overcome: by the moment, the emotion, the music. But Combinations and the song "Taking Control" are about overcoming, with a newfound directness and heaviness.

Drawing from sources as disparate as Black Sabbath, the indie-instrumentalists in Tortoise and the self-flagellating noise-masters in Swans, the instrumental hard rock of Pelican's "Winds with Hands" whispers as much as it shouts.

We asked great jazz musicians what's been catching their ears lately. The alto saxophonist in Roy Haynes' band says he's been checking out his employer's recordings, including Haynes' 1963 stint in John Coltrane's quartet.

We asked great jazz musicians what's been catching their ears lately. The soprano saxophonist and newly-named NEA Jazz Master says he reliably returns to John Coltrane's "Crescent," which he calls "pure poetry."

Roberto Fonseca's mastery of the Cuban piano tradition fuels this fiery performance.

Well ahead of a celebratory Central Park concert announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio for August, New York City's venues are coming back in June for vaccinated audiences.

Two cultural icons come together in a new documentary: Director Martin Scorsese puts rock legends the Rolling Stones center stage in Shine a Light. Scorsese tells Morning Edition it took a lot of choreography — onstage and off.

The band's sophomore album, Earthdrawn Skies, connects the dots in wildly diverse music spanning eight centuries.