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Keith Jarrett's landmark best-seller plus works of Handel and Shostakovich this Friday (1/17, rebroadcast Saturday 1/18)

Music of Franz Liszt, This Friday (5/30, rebroadcast Saturday 5/31)

An eclectic and unpredictable music mix this Friday (4/25, rebroadcast 4/26)

Music by Franz Schubert this Friday (5/2, rebroadcast Saturday 5/3)

Celebrating Beethoven’s birthday this Friday (12/12, rebroadcast Saturday 12/13)

On this week's podcast: Epic country rock, blistering punk and a nearly seven-foot-tall clown mashes up Johnny Cash and The Who. Seriously.

Hear a triumphant fusion of jazz, rock and blues that moves with momentum and fresh anticipation. Logan Richardson plays with a lyrical intensity that is both focused and free.

During a hiatus from The Frames, Glen Hansard recorded The Swell Season with Czech singer Marketa Irglova, and the result aches and swoons behind lovely arrangements. A longtime master of sublimely melodramatic sad-bastard music, Hansard finds words of hard-won hope and comfort on "Falling Slowly."

Five years ago, vibraphonist and marimba player Stefon Harris started Blackout. It's a troupe of music mercenaries adept in the language of jazz, the strut of soul music and the raucous ruckus of breakbeats, go-go and new-jack rhythms. Hear Blackout bring swagger to modern jazz in a session from WBGO.

"B.B." is the sound of musicians going about things in a deliberately different way, and discovering a kind of enchanted forest in the process. The song's pulse, when it finally arrives, is a cool breeze from a more delicate era — with hints of cresting jazz polyrhythm but, thankfully, no jazz pretensions.