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The music featured on this week's show expands the notion of just what is Latin music.

A guitar that can sound like 16 different instruments? Day to Day contributor, jazz critic, golfer and musician David Was reviews the new high-tech Variax guitar, which features electronics that change the sound with the twist of a dial.

Hailing from Brooklyn and New Orleans, The Pimps of Joytime's members traffic in a funk style laden with elements of soul, punk, Afro-Caribbean, afrobeat and rap. Independent music producer Derek Rath is addicted.

Over a 60-year career, Zawinul embraced many types of jazz, but came to define the style known as jazz-fusion with his influential band Weather Report, and its 1977 hit "Birdland." Zawinul died of cancer early Tuesday.

Fun-loving, strong-willed bassist Christian McBride can play anything he wants, and he likes to "mess with the jazz fans." McBride performs with his band at the Kennedy Center in concert recorded by JazzSet.

Ray Charles was one of those rare musicians whose musical style blended many genres, drawing on jazz, rhythm and blues, gospel, country, and rock 'n' roll, to create a unique and soulful sound. Hear Charles play "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" before joining McPartland for "The Man I Love."

Music from a found diary: The Mars Volta; Progressive rock classic from Gentle Giant; Stockholm pop from Shout Out Louds New instrumental electronica from Moby; Pavement's Stephen Malkmus and more.

Throughout his three-decade history leading the Berlin Philharmonic, the conductor struggled to find perfection in the symphony orchestra. Karajan biographer Richard Osborne offers a list of five albums that embody the maestro's magic.

Sunday is Father's Day. If you're a dad, congratulations; these songs are for you. If you're a son or a daughter, here's a list of dad-friendly jazz songs to let your father know you're thinking of him.

On the lead single and video from Canyons Of My Mind, Combs connects the environmentalist folk-pop of Don McLean with the dystopian mood-setting of Radiohead.