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The veteran punk rocker John Doe embraced his inner mountain man on Country Club, an album of classic country covers he recorded with The Sadies. The Canadian rockers and the former X frontman joined Terry Gross in the Fresh Air studio for an interview and an intimate performance. (Rebroadcast from April 2009.)

Once billed as the "world's fastest saxophonist," the Chicago native played in the bands of Lionel Hampton and Thelonious Monk. He was known as one of the strongest and most proficient exponents of hard-swinging bebop traditions.

Tess Taylor reviews Ross Gay's collection, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude.

Sunny Jain's music promotes the idea of not just crossing boundaries but obliterating them all together.

WBGO's Nate Chinen reflects on the year in jazz.

New Yorker writer John Colapinto says the development of vocal structures may have been the key to humans' becoming the dominant species on the planet. His new book is This is the Voice.

A rebroadcast of a 2019 episode featuring great Italian pianists.

An eclectic mix of piano works from different eras.

A centenary tribute to a piano legend this Friday (1/19, rebroadcast Saturday 1/20)

The Broadway legend's songs in piano arrangements this Friday (3/8, rebroadcast Saturday 3/9)