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The ensemble thrives on high-intensity repertoire, like Xenakis' exhilarating Tetras, and new music from the likes of Brooklyn-based Missy Mazzoli. The JACK Quartet plays both at WQXR's Greene Space.

Van Etten is no ordinary guitar-wielding singer-songwriter: Sure, she sings softly and woundedly, but her music has teeth.

One of today's most popular mainstream pianists, Charlap delights in selecting the most attractive standards of yesteryear and rendering them with tactful, warmly familiar gestures.

Remember the late piano master with a 1992 performance and conversation with host Marian McPartland.

The Breaux Bridge, La.-based Cajun ensemble Balfa Toujours is one of many great family acts to perform at Newport this year. The group stays in touch with a long tradition of revivalism.

The pianist and composer has a distinctively modern, studied form of Latin jazz. He presents his quartet in concert, featuring the return of tenor saxophonist Mark Turner from a scary hand injury.

He's a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame producer, songwriter, pianist, singer and New Orleans native. And now he's made one of the best jazz albums of 2009. Toussaint brings a diverse cast to the Vanguard.

Merritt incorporates gospel, soul, '70s California rock 'n' roll and warm echoes of Joni Mitchell's brand of folk music into her piano-based country songs.

The compact-but-mighty Brass Ecstasy lit up the CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival with a stylish, fervent update of the brass-band tradition.

The L.A. band Dawes may be led by singer Taylor Goldsmith, but the group's layered backing vocals are just as much the star of its sweetly melancholy debut album, North Hills.

With a stage name that's helped him rise to the top of iTunes libraries everywhere, Bondy writes dark songs about staying a half-step ahead of damnation and doom.

The Austin post-rock band curated All Tomorrow's Parties in 2008. Now it's returned to perform at the music festival's 10th-anniversary party. Listen to the band's epic set here.

Brazilian guitarists Sergio and Odair Assad have been playing together for 40 years, and they have the varied, imaginative repertoire to prove it. Hear them in concert at the Savannah Music Festival.

Following a frenetic and enjoyable set at the Newport Folk Festival, David Wax Museum brings its infectious blend of American and Mexican folk music to the NPR Music offices. Watch the band perform with a Mexican jarocha guitar and percussive donkey jawbone.

The guitarist plays an original and then tears it up on a Cole Porter tune with Marian McPartland and bassist Gary Mazzaroppi.

Hear the band recorded live in concert, from one of the year's most memorable tours. Radiohead ended its run of U.S. cities this summer with a dazzling spectacle in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Barron has long been known as one of New York's most talented and tasteful keyboard players. He brings a quartet of young instrumentalists to the Greenwich Village outpost.

In this session from 1992, Torme performs his own songs, "Stranger In Town" and "Born to Be Blue," as well as favorites such as "Dream Dancing" and "Time After Time" with Marian McPartland.

The inventive composer and pianist puts his prodigious technique to work in this 1983 episode of Piano Jazz, hosted by Marian McPartland.

The quintessential crooner talks about the significance of American popular song, his favorite songwriters and his love of painting in this program from 2004.