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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.

On this edition of What's in a Song, singer Mary Chapin Carpenter talks about her song "Twilight." It's an in-between time of the day with special meaning for her.

In an act of symphonic diplomacy, conductor Lorin Maazel takes the New York Philharmonic on a historic visit to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, armed with music by Gershwin and Dvorak. But the unprecedented event is not without criticism.

The iconoclastic singer's 11th album is the sort of rich work that keeps changing inside the listener's head — an often-quiet set of songs with intense staying power.

Fats Waller sang, emceed, told jokes, wrote hits, and played mean piano. Decades later, a fellow jazz pianist tries to capture his life-of-the-party spirit with drastically new versions of his tunes.

A superstar cast made a real life love story — disguised as an action movie — just because.

What happens when a veteran L.A. soul and jazz instrumentalist discovers the music of Ethiopia? The answer: a world of influence and possibility.

Veteran Bay Area rapper re-emerges with snarling Black nationalism on an urgent and aggressive declaration of intent.

Rock critic Ken Tucker says that Beyonce's new album, titled 4, is something of a risk – it's not merely a collection of new songs, but a personal reassessment of the kind of pop star she wants to be.

The soul singer's new collection of holiday songs seems destined to become a revisited classic.

More than three decades after Pancho & Lefty, the country titans pair up again, this time for an album that puts eclecticism front and center.

There are certain figures in jazz history whose iconic status can be telegraphed by a single name. The pianist and singer Nina Simone seems to be ascending to that place of pop-culture reverence.

New music from Paul McCartney; A revival for folk artist Vashti Bunyan; New Brit pop from Supergrass; The howl of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club; A lovely night with singer Richard Swift and more.

On this episode, we dig through our archives to bring you some of our favorite artists and albums featured on All Songs Considered during the past two years.

The Los Angeles band's distinct sound includes touches of Rio de Janeiro's tropicalia, Lima's cumbia, and American soul and funk.

The My Morning Jacket frontman adopts the role of gravel-voiced doomsayer in a new solo album that takes grim foreboding and makes it funky.

Singer Dan Klein died of ALS earlier this summer, but at least his rocksteady band was able to see its collective vision through on this one sublime album.

Melina Duterte's new song as Jay Som starts with a gentle strum and hushed whisper, but swells to a romantic, orchestral peak.

The clown princes of hip-hop talk about their eighth album and its epic companion video, which finds them poking fun at their younger selves.

Social media has been filled with videos of Black children watching the teaser of the trailer for the new "Little Mermaid" movie, which stars Bailey.