The 23-year-old jazz phenom’s debut album showcases her takes on vintage jazz and blues numbers by Bessie Smith, Fats Waller and others. You can trace some of her effects back to jazz greats like Sarah Vaughan, Betty Carter and Abbey Lincoln.

The jazz composer’s latest project is an opera based on the life of Emile Griffith, a gay boxer who became a world champion in the 1960s — at a price.

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.

Hear the late bandleader bring his deft touch to a set of Billy Strayhorn classics and more.

The whole keyboard was Miller’s canvas. His left hand could stride and swing with great authority, and when the two hands got together, he sent the train down the tracks. Hear music from WBGO’s 25th-anniversary party, the Detroit Jazz Festival and the Kennedy Center Jazz Club.

Among the vestment racks, satchel purveyors and art galleries of New York’s SoHo neighborhood lies a small merchant which peddles preserved insects, skulls, bones and other geological findings. Unnerved — well, mostly — the improvising harpist generates a Caribbean bounce amid the glass cases.

The bassist has made the rounds with some of the best jazz musicians in the world, including Wynton Marsalis and Herbie Hancock. But for McBride, staying in the swing of things means reaching audiences. Guest host Celeste Headlee speaks with McBride about his new album, People Music.

Mulder describes bringing new life to old standards and performs a set of the songs she holds dear.

Self-taught and enterprising, Tucker contributed to plenty of great jazz recordings as a sideman in New York and Los Angeles. But the log of his discography barely begins to describe the legacy he left behind in his adopted hometown of Savannah, Ga.

Guest host Michaela Majoun talks to the jazz and blues singer about her new album, The Blue Room.

Vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant and pianist Aaron Diehl, both in their 20s, have already racked up major industry prizes. They took radically different paths to get there, but on Salvant’s new album, they find ways to honor old traditions as young people.

With the bass, “you have a lot more power than you may think,” Oh says in a session with Jon Weber.