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The man credited with playing some of the first recorded guitar solos is today largely forgotten. But a group of Philadelphia-based musicians have just produced a tribute to the early master of blues, jazz and pop.

After comics, novels, and a spinoff Netflix show, Cuphead returns to its roots with new game content. It's brutally difficult, brilliantly surreal, and entirely worth playing.

Beginning in the early '50s, Taylor treated his projects and artists with lush care and extensive support, eventually creating a Grammy-winning, cross-genre artistic hub with his label, CTI.

Gonzalo Rubalcaba is one of the most popular pianists on the jazz scene. The Cuban expatriate's latest CD touches on some of the music he was forbidden to learn in Communist Cuba: the work of Cuban classical composers. Rolando Arrieta profiles the artist.

This summer marks the half-century anniversary of Central Park's Delacorte Theater, home of the free annual Shakespeare in the Park. Jeff Lunden looks at the theater's beginnings and how it continues its work today with a new production of As You Like It.

Cross-pollination of excellent musicians made for some amazing jazz in 2008. The year's best CDs feature numerous musicians collaborating with each other on a wide variety of recordings. Hearing the best musicians work with other geniuses is a wonderful thing to witness. Here are 10 of the best jazz CDs of the year.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Joan Shelley's new song, and an HBO reality show that sets up single parents.

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Telemarketers docuseries, Celebrity Book Club and the novel Once More with Feeling.

Seliger has made portraits of actors, rock stars and presidents. The challenge, he says, is to "create something that's never been done before." A new book collects images from his last 30 years.

James' new novel is an epic fantasy that he's described as an African Game of Thrones, featuring a rag-tag band of adventurers on a possibly doomed quest, with plenty of blood, sex and monsters.