Bucky Pizzarelli and his son John have been collaborating since the latter was a kid. They perform live in NPR’s studios.

When a studio engineer and drummer from New Orleans met one of the best trombone players in Richmond, Va., a funky, danceable, street-style brass band was born. Watch 11 musicians squeeze behind NPR Music’s Tiny Desk, turn up the funk and fly the “RVA” flag high.

The banjo player whips up a fresh take on an old-time sound with the help of host Jon Weber.

When he was 21, pianist Marc Cary moved to New York City to find his father. He wound up finding himself in the upper echelons of the city’s jazz scene. Cary’s new album pays tribute to the legendary singer and songwriter with whom he spent more than a decade performing.

Siegel, a singer, is one quarter of the jazz supergroup The Manhattan Transfer. Throughout the 30 years she’s spent with that musical institution, she’s also released her own recordings featuring hip, seductive arrangements of standards, as well as newer works. Here, she visits Piano Jazz along with pianist and accordion player Gil Goldstein.

Though mainly a jazz player, wrote the surf guitar anthem “Walk, Don’t Run,” which became a Top 10 hit for The Ventures on two occasions.

The jazzy, soulful singer challenges himself throughout his latest album, No Beginning, No End.

They met in New Orleans’ performing-arts high school, became Donald Harrison’s rhythm section as teenagers and have now released their first album. The precociously mature collective plays original music — and a few acknowledgements — in a live performance.

The clarinetist Don Byron has a way of homing in on an artist’s legacy and transforming it with intelligence and adventure. He takes on the bluesy music of Southern gospel pioneer Thomas Dorsey with his New Gospel Trio in concert. A precociously mature young band from New Orleans opens.