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On this program from 1980, Blake remembers his vaudeville days and writing the classic songs "Charleston Rag" and "I'm Just Wild About Harry."

In the calm-before-the-storm part of the day and week — 10 o'clock on a Monday morning, to be exact — reggae singer Tarrus Riley, saxophonist Dean Fraser and guitarist Lamont Savory showed up and performed three gorgeous, harmony-drenched reggae songs.

The talented Boston roots-folk group won its spot on a Newport stage after winning a contest, and it made the most of the opportunity.

As a solo artist, saxophonist and prolific sideman Colin Stetson creates vivid, enveloping, challenging, seemingly free-form soundscapes.

The soaring Brooklyn rock trio The Antlers unveils the new album Burst Apart, a haunting, wrenchingly beautiful follow up to 2009's Hospice.

The genre-smashing members of River City Extension live by the simple motto, "More is more," live.

Hear the duo play some blazingly intense bluegrass in a concert from the Newport Folk Festival.

Blending his original work with a wide array of hip-hop and electronica, producer Flying Lotus gets the crowds dancing at the 2011 Sasquatch Music Festival.

The Swedish dance-pop diva never stopped moving during a set full of Body Talk hits.

NPR Music's staff stumbled onto the Tennessee band's music at the CMJ Music Festival last fall, and quickly fell in love. The Kopeckys' sweet, swollen folk-rock songs keep blooming into something irresistible.

The vital bridge between Woody Guthrie and the many musicians after him performs at Newport.

Maybe it's the quiver in her voice or the poetry in her spare writing, but there's a magnetic pull that draws fans into the songs and stories of Amanda Shires. Watch the singer and fiddler bring her charming music to the NPR Music offices.

The piano trio is known to deconstruct standards and assemble its pianist's mixed-media compositions in the same breath. Hear the band, led by its recent MacArthur Genius Grant winner, perform.

Many recognize the tenor saxophonist as one of the most original voices of his generation; one who possesses the rare ability to distill abstruse modern ideas into gorgeous, palpably warm music.

Gifted 21-year-old guitarist and composer Roy Guzman is one of many exciting young musicians to perform at Newport this year. Hear a full set by Guzman and his Quintet, recorded live.

What do you do when you're one of the world's top bassists and you get a craving to play the Vanguard again? If you're Christian McBride, you assemble a top-notch, straight-ahead acoustic quintet.

Hear two songs from the collective quartet's performance at Newport.

Hear a set by Berklee College of Music's student group, led by Puerto Rican saxophonist Castro.

Ceramic Dog inspired some spontaneous and spastic gyration in the Paramount Theatre seats.

The classical violinist blends Bach and Charles Ives with flair, then tops it off with a fedora.