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It’s a bit of historical fiction on this week’s Sunday Opera (4/11 3:00 p.m.) with George Frideric Handel’s “Alessandro.” Closer to a comedy than a drama,…

The musicians of the versatile, Grammy-winning Attacca Quartet have transformed themselves into an electronica-dance-ambient string quartet for their new album, Real Life.

“Broadway rhythm it’s got me. Everybody Dance!” on this week’s Dress Circle (7/14 7:00 p.m.) as we look at how rhythm has appeared in songs from some…

Filmmaker Cameron Crowe discusses the deep musical connections in his movies. Evidence of the care that goes into the director's soundtracks can be seen in Elizabethtown, Crowe's latest release.

Soulive takes jazz back to the dance floor, mixing it with soul, funk and hip-hop. A new CD adds a sizzling horn section and guest vocalists. Trio members Alan Evans, Neal Evans and Eric Krasno tell Michele Norris about Break Out.

Singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones has released an anthology of her favorite recordings, a three-CD set called Duchess of Coolsville. David Was shares his thoughts on Jones' no-compromises approach.

Saxophonist and clarinetist Ned Rothenberg has always been a musical cosmopolitan. Early on, he studied jazz with George Coleman and shakuhachi flute in Japan. Rothenberg's new album, Inner Diaspora, sends him back to his roots.

The Cuban jazz legend says he likes to let his trumpet do the talking... sometimes in a whisper, sometimes making a "big noise like no one else."

The versatile, knowledgeable vocalist joins Marian McPartland for a set of Duke Ellington and Gershwin tunes.

Wincing the Night Away is the third full-length album of indie popsters, The Shins. The group gained widespread notice for the songs they contributed to the soundtrack of 2004's Garden State.