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In Elizabethan England popular music was performed by minstrels, dance bands and waits. The lyrics of poems were collected along with appropriate tunes…

Dances, fantasias and popular tunes for Queen Elizabeth I's Violin Band on Friday's Distant Mirror: Anonymous 16th Century music performed by the Parley…

For fans of Sonny Rollins, The Internet and Kamasi Washington.

In Elizabethan England popular music was performed by minstrels, dance bands and waits. The lyrics or poems were collected along with popular tunes into…

At 1:00 PM on Friday afternoon, 9-20 the afternoon concert from this year's Cape May Music Festival is titled Chamber Jazz with Ted Rosenthal and Eddie…

Hear an electric fusion set from keyboardist Joe Zawinul and The Zawinul Syndicate in concert from 2006. We also celebrate 50 years of Weather Report with co-founder Wayne Shorter and other alumni.

Timbales virtuoso. Vibraphonist. Bongo player. Saxophonist. These are just a few of Tito Puente's titles. Perhaps best known for his appearance in the 1992 film The Mambo Kings, he also helped fuel the cha-cha craze in the 1950s. This five-disc set gives a broad overview of Puente's innovative, danceable style.

One day, musicologist John Work happened to record an obscure street singer's blues talent. Discovering that field recording leads commentator Bruce Nemerov to reflect on how the blues were marketed before World War II.

The popular jazz singer follows a familiar pattern on his new album: It's acoustic, unconcerned with fashion or complexity, and both overpowering and soothing. That's a good thing.

Reunited after three decades, the pan-African "cosmic jazz" experimentalists throw an extended and ecstatic dance party, with throwback funk vibes and multiculti merger.