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Welsman is a dynamic singer, pianist and arranger who's a won a closetful of awards in her native Canada. She swings on Latin grooves and her own arrangements, singing in Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese with flawless pronunciation. She joins guest host Jon Weber for a set that features the Peggy Lee tune "I Like Men," as well as "One Note Samba."

The jazz vocalist is fond of the music that bookends the Great Depression, but the postwar American songbook of the 1950s finds a home with her, too. Her latest album, Inside This Heart of Mine, features songs from both eras, performed in Russell's intimate and contemporary style.

Under the name A Broken Consort, Richard Skelton sketches ambient abstracts of the British countryside. In a flutter of drones, "Mountains Ash" moves like volcanic ash in cinematic slow motion.

In a transitional period between different groups with Miles Davis and Anthony Braxton and his fusion band, Return to Forever, Chick Corea recorded a series of solo piano improvisations in 1971. Those recordings and a 1983 follow-up have been reissued in a three-CD box set.

The Iranian-American journalist was imprisoned in Iran, interrogated, tried and eventually released. But the controversy continues. Saberi says she confessed to her crimes in order to get out of jail but asserts that she did nothing wrong. Her new book Between Two Worlds is an account of her time in captivity.

Hall doesn't often hog the spotlight on his debut album, Into the Light. He doesn't need to; he plays more stuff behind other musicians than some drummers do in a solo. Hall stays busy back there, exhorting and swinging the band, playing contrary rhythms, shifting his patterns and punctuating everybody else's solos.

Hadero's sound is a unique blend of jazz, Ethiopia, artsy San Francisco and visceral poetry. Her first musical performance was only five years ago, and her debut album, On a Day Like This..., is set for an April release.

Drums — wide and deep talking-to-you drums — are the key ingredient in the Cindy Blackman sound. At the Women in Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center, the Lenny Kravitz drummer brought her quartet featuring JD Allen. Sherrie Maricle's Fiveplay opens.

In the 1930s and '40s, band singers were mostly blond, sophisticated and attractive. Ella Fitzgerald was awkward, gawky and even a bit chubby by comparison — but could she sing.

The jazz trumpeter chats about and performs songs from his album Yesterday You Said Tomorrow. He tells guest host Audie Cornish about how he developed his signature breathy sound, and his education in jazz which came from his family, formal schooling, and the clubs in his hometown of New Orleans.