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Toots and the Maytals, legendary architects of reggae, perform for a sold-out crowd at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.

Jessye Norman talks with NPR's Fred Child about her friend, Coretta Scott King. And in tribute to King on the day of her funeral, we hear Norman sing "Beim Schlafengehen," one of the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss. Kurt Masur conducts the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig.

Fantasy Records releases a new collection of classic recordings from the 1950s and 1960s, called Jazz for Lovers. Musician and critic David Was reviews the collection, and finds some nice surprises.

Record producer Joel Dorn and photographer Lee Friedlander grew up listening to gospel and blues. Now they've put out a compilation of their favorite gospel songs from the 1950s and 1960s. They tell Debbie Elliott about Gospel Music.

Olli Mustonen is a great fan of Finnish music. This season, he's been touring with a set of lovely and rarely-played miniatures by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. We hear from a set called "Ten Pieces for Piano."

Songwriter Steve Wynn is celebrated for his groundbreaking work with The Dream Syndicate, a band that, along with REM and the Replacements, is credited with inventing the American indie rock scene of the 1980s. Hear Wynn in concert, recorded live from station XPN in Philadelphia.

James Hunter's music harkens back to the days of classic 1950s and early '60s R&B, with infectious vocal and guitar performances, clever songwriting and tight horn arrangements. His latest album, People Gonna Talk, is Hunter's first to be released in America.

At 87, Cuban pianist and composer Bebo Valdes is busier than ever — and he's getting more recognition than ever before. But just 10 years ago, he was hardly recognized as a lounge pianist in Stockholm.

Performance Today features music from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the glee clubs of Morehouse and Spelman colleges and others, as well as sections of famous speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It's a King Day celebration.

Colin Meloy, frontman for The Decemberists, and art-pop singer-songwriter Laura Veirs perform a night of solo, acoustic work, recorded live in concert.