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November’s “PostClassical” webcast explores Joseph Horowitz’s new book Dvorak’s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music, released this month…

In celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month, here's a playlist of favorites from Grammy Award-winning bassist, composer, educator, broadcaster and Jazz Night in America host Christian McBride.

Just in time for the fourth of July, we’ve got your hot summer reading list — from "The Hate U Give" to "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine" — all cued up.

In 1977, there was a historic meeting of two musical currents: albino guitarist Johnny Winter played with legendary bluesmen Muddy Waters and James Cotton. Their 1977 concert has been released on a new album, Breakin It Up, Breakin' It Down.

Television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews the ABC miniseries The Ten Commandments. Wallenstein says the series tries to recreate the magic of the 1956 classic film, with mixed results.

Jazz Night hangs with trumpeter Theo Croker in Jacksonville, Fla., where he spent his teenage years, to revisit old mentors and hear a set by his band from the Jacksonville Jazz Festival.

Musician David Was says the Texas tenor sax player Ornette Coleman is sort of the Samuel Beckett of jazz — misunderstood, maligned and, after almost five decades since his debut, still making news. A new Coleman CD collection has been released called To Whom Who Keeps a Record.

The electronic artist Mocean Worker grew up around the greats of jazz and related American musics. On his new CD, he draws upon his history to create vintage-sounding, danceable grooves which aren't quite jazz — but sound a lot like it.

Torture Team, a book by lawyer and author Philippe Sands, pulls together the results of interviews with the people in the United States government who decided to use harsh tactics in detainee interrogations.

The Egyptian queen is most often remembered as a beautiful seductress. But in Cleopatra: A Life, biographer Stacy Schiff explains how the well-educated, enormously wealthy, powerful female pharaoh was actually a canny political strategist and tough negotiator.