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Eilen Jewell is a 27-year-old Boston-based musician known for her classic country and folk style, her emotional singing and her dramatic uses of silence. Her latest album is saturated with sorrow. Hear an interview and performance from WXPN.

In Shakespeare's Songbook, a book and CD collection, author and musician Ross Duffin presents a collection of 160 songs from the comedies and tragedies of the great playwright.

A bored accountant finds excitement when an acquaintance's cell phone offers entree to an exclusive sex club. A promisingly mysterious beginning gives way to an increasingly preposterous plot.

The tenor saxophonist and flutist blends dazzling proficiency with the divine.

A man is on trial for raping a 12-year-old girl in Goldsboro in 1987. William Neal lived around the corner from the girl at that time. The victim…

In a 1980 session, the pianist and vocalist joined Marian McPartland for a set of standards.

One of the most popular stylists in contemporary jazz, the pianist joined Marian McPartland for a 1985 session.

D'Ambrosio — a vocalist, pianist, visual artist, composer and teacher — joined Marian McPartland in 1994.

Back in 1995, the young pianist demonstrated extraordinary talent on standards.

Marian McPartland praises the trumpeter's warmth and virtuosity in a Piano Jazz episode from 2000.

The roots-rock band plays the Americana Music Honors & Awards with strings and backup singers.

The pianist and saxophonist was a frequent collaborator with Charles Mingus and Maynard Ferguson.

Hear from the Massachusetts folk-pop band, which made host Larry Groce's favorite song of 2015.

Hear the songwriter and master keyboardist perform with host Marian McPartland on this 1987 episode.

The multi-instrumentalist joins Marian McPartland for Duke Ellington and Gershwin tunes in 1997.

Bates plays a solo concert in West Virginia, accompanied only by his own acoustic guitar. The singer-songwriter's set includes "Lucinda," a heartfelt tribute to one of his greatest influences.

Host Marian McPartland honors the prolific jazz critic by performing a "Portrait Of Nat Hentoff" in this 2006 broadcast.

A satirical look at globalization in the fashion of Voltaire's Candide, the novel X Out of Wonderland by David Cates is based in part on the author's own travels. In addition to writing, Cates directs Missoula Medical Aid, a health-clinic supply program in Honduras.

Hear Bright Eyes perform live from Washington D.C.'s 9:30 Club with special guests Tilly and the Wall and CocoRosie.

The Sphinx Competition in Detroit is just one arm of multi-dimensional organization whose goal is to increase black and Latino participation in classical music. From this year's competition, Junior Division winner Gabriel Cabezas plays a movement of the J.C. Bach Cello Concerto in C minor with the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra.