The jazz trumpeter is 66 now, but he’s not slowing down any: His current band has released five excellent albums since 2007 alone. His new piano-less project is further testament to his prolific composing. Harrell presents new music live at the venerable New York jazz institution.

Munisteri and Michael Feinstein share tunes that, while forsaken by the past, are easy to remember.

When this episode of Piano Jazz was recorded in 2006, Krall was seven and a half months pregnant with twins. Hear the pianist and vocalist play “P.S. I Love You” and “Little Girl Blue.”

From Little Italy in the Bronx to the Village Vanguard in Greenwich Village to the gardens in Fort Tryon Park, the rhythm of the city drives a suite by Chris Lightcap and his band Bigmouth. Here, they perform at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, Calif.

Apart from his globetrotting with the Vijay Iyer Trio and others, bassist Stephan Crump is also a composer, both for film and his own bands. His Rosetta Trio, with two guitars, strives for quieter sophistication. He presents his late-afternoon, back-porch ditties for interlocking strings.

Bassists Todd Sickafoose and Stephan Crump play with leading jazz artists and singer-songwriters. As bandleaders, they’ve each written richly-textured instrumental music for bands with dueling guitars. Those bands play back to back in this live broadcast.

The Memphis-bred, New-York-honed and coastal California resident developed a reputation as an earthy, sincere voice — one one the world’s most popular jazz musicians. Hear five tunes spanning the saxophonist’s career, from ’60s mysticism to modern spirituals.

Through a career that’s encompassed folk, rock, country and operetta, the singer has even recorded with minimalist composer Philip Glass. In this session recorded live at Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Mass., Ronstadt sticks to jazz standards like “Lush Life.”

Hear “Mood Indigo” as a bluesy duet between the jazz singer and host Michael Feinstein.

Lloyd led a jazz quartet into The Fillmore, San Francisco’s legendary rock venue, in the 1960s. He backed Howlin’ Wolf and B.B. King and hit the road with The Beach Boys. The charismatic musician is 75 this week.

The Japanese pianist’s latest album begins with a tribute to a sound she’s never liked: the chime of an alarm clock.

Dameron was a composer and pianist who fused the sophisticated arrangements of the Big Band era with bebop’s complex harmonies. A new biography shines a light on the too-brief life of the man known as “The Architect of Bop.”

Trumpeter, flugelhorn player and vocalist Stacy Rowles was a fixture on the L.A. jazz scene, and played regularly in all-female jazz groups the Jazzbirds and Maiden Voyage. This program from 2001 is presented as a tribute to Rowles, who died in 2009.

The Czech Republic capital of Prague is home to the annual Strings of Autumn International Music Festival where, in October 2012, soulful jazz singer Gregory Porter brought down the house. Applause between songs ran for a minute or longer.

Veteran jazz masters “Killer” Ray Appleton and Barry Altschul have issued fine new albums this year. Both in their early 70s, it’s clear they draw from extensive experience. So how might that translate to making music that’s fun to listen to?

The former Tonight Show bandleader joins Marian McPartland for Cole Porter and Sonny Rollins tunes.

Homegrown Christie Dashiell and expat Alfredo Rodriguez each bring something new to Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center. Dashiell’s vocal delivery is so easy, you can barely hear her breathe. Rodriguez’s control and dynamics make the piano sing, sweat and shake as he plays the music of Cuba.

With a new album of instrumental arrangements, the innovative Roxy Music frontman re-imagines some of his classic songs through the prism of 1920s jazz.

The tenor saxophonist plays in some of the most talked-about jazz groups of today; bands led by Ambrose Akinmusire, Eric Harland and Terence Blanchard. Freshly signed to a new record deal, Smith draws the leadership role in presenting his own quintet at his alma mater.

A guitarist with a decidedly non-standard approach to jazz’s standard practices, Halvorson balances golden-era hard-bop order and free improvising entropy. At the NPR Music offices, her band strikes comforting tones, but also morphs, rephrases and implodes those ideas.