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With a small backing band, Jakob Dylan came to the Newport Folk Festival armed with not only songs from his first solo album, Seeing Things, but also music from the entire Wallflowers catalog.

Widely recognized as one of the finest drummers in modern jazz — or in all of popular music, for that matter — Blade leads his celebrated Fellowship Band, fresh off their first recording in years.

Hailing from North Carolina, the band takes Southern music traditions and merges them into a uniquely catchy musical sensibility. Hear The Avett Brothers premiere songs from a forthcoming album.

These days, the trumpeter and composer is becoming a public advocate for jazz at large. But this week, it's all about the music: His most popular band presents new works.

He's an octogenarian and jazz legend, but he's still going full tilt. Joined by two much younger musicians, the wonderfully unpredictable alto saxophonist performs live at the great New York venue.

When he isn't gigging with the modern masters, you might find the bright, energetic tenor saxophonist leading his own groups. A foursome in tow, he plays the Vanguard as a bandleader.

Hear a full set of the band's best-loved early material, with nothing beyond Daydream Nation, recorded live at All Tomorrow's Parties last weekend. The result is rock catharsis.

Closing each day at Folk Festival 50, legendary folksinger Pete Seeger and his son, Tao Rodriguez Seeger, led hootenannies with some of their closest friends and musicians.

The younger Guthrie has released more than two dozen albums, founded the Guthrie Center and devoted himself to numerous political causes.

In 1985, vocalist Rebecca Parris first journeyed north from Boston to perform at Marblehead Summer Jazz. Since then, she's earned the high praise of her fellow singers — and made the trip every year.

A warm swell fills the room when My Morning Jacket takes the stage, but there's also unmistakable energy. The band performs songs from its new album, Evil Urges, at SXSW.

The music of Sam Phillips unfolds like perfect, miniature pop dramas. On this Tiny Desk performance, recorded at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen, Phillips performs four songs.

Reedwoman Anat Cohen totes a clarinet and two saxophones, and plays them in modern jazz, traditional revues and every Afro-Latin hybrid imaginable. She'll do all that and more in this live broadcast.

The New Orleans trumpeter is known as a film composer for Spike Lee, and as a standard-bearer of modern jazz innovation. He brings his quintet into lower Manhattan.

The violinist, composer and occasional country singer has long been developing a rich, earthy take on American music, filtered through adventurous jazz sensibilities.

Parlato uses her light and feathery voice in ways that request and reward further attention. A group that is happy to accompany her appears here at the CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival.

It's rare to have three great pianists at three pianos in one studio. Charlap and Rosnes join host Marian McPartland in this 2008 session for a trio of "You and the Night and the Music."

Iron and Wine's Sam Beam continues to wring inventive sounds out of the American folk-music form. His band's latest collection, Around the Well, is a reminder of just how far Beam has come.

Fleet Foxes' members blend layers of harmonized vocals with shuffling drums and finger-picked guitars, and their song titles are in sync with the vision of pastoral mammals their name conjures.

Pete Seeger and grandson Tao Rodriguez-Seeger led the festivities with Joan Baez, Ben Jaffe and members of Balfa Toujours.