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Hear the eclectic pop maestro blend rock, pop and classic musical during his front-and-center debut on Mountain Stage.

Fresh on the heels of winning the NPR Music Tiny Desk Contest, the seven-piece group wowed the Oregon festival crowd with a mix of funk, hip-hop, rock and jazz.

It was in Philly where Jimmy Smith first took a church instrument and made it swing. Years later, the city's jazz community gathers to salute its many soulful pioneers of the Hammond B-3 organ.

When gentrification causes a neighborhood to change, can its culture remain in tact?

This week we have selection's from Emerich Kalman's operetta "The Countess Maritza." The operetta takes place in Vienna in 1924, where for many people…

Snow Patrol appears content to issue a series of great, gooey ballads familiar to anyone who's heard Coldplay's "Fix You." "Chasing Cars" is formulaic and utterly irresistible, built to play in trailers for romantic movies involving Zach Braff.

If the souls of Sly Stone and Prince were united in the form of a white British singer, his name would probably be Jamie Lidell. Though Lidell is likely to perform his funk jams backed by a laptop, he still has the full-throated, improvisational vocal talent and showmanship of his predecessors.

Silverman won the Emmy for best writing for a variety special for her HBO special We Are Miracles. In 2005, she spoke with Fresh Air about her movie Jesus Is Magic.

Warren Zanes is the vice president of education at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. But Zanes isn't just writing about music; he's making it, too. His second solo album, People That I'm Wrong For, was released in March.

Roy Hargrove delivers an evocative narrative that, without words, conjures the spirit of Donny Hathaway or Stevie Wonder. Because the song doesn't contain any verses, it's easy to imagine its exquisite lyricism as a discreet love letter to jazz itself.