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The 14-piece Washington, D.C.-based afrobeat orchestra blends rhythms from all across the African continent, and then some. And as their name indicates, the band might just be crazy enough to pull it off.

He didn't see it coming when his sensitive crooning launched him to pop fame in 1996. But with one Tony Award-winning musical in the books and another production on the way, his work as a stage composer has put him in the spotlight again.

Lavie's debut album, The Opposite Side of the Sea, flows with soothing vocals and evocative lyrics. A playwright and theater director by nature, the Israeli-born singer has seamlessly transposed his compositional talent from stage to record.

The conductor says that his goal is for more people to appreciate and recognize classical music for its complexity, organization and beauty. In an interview, Ponti discusses his work, his son and the best way for a classical-music novice to discover pure symphonic joy.

The American composer, who died Friday, embraced the early-20th-century style called 12-tone music. But he also developed his own personal spin on the methodology, giving his own music a palpable wit and lyrical punch.

At 15, Trucks formed the Derek Trucks Band. Six albums later, the group is still jamming out blues- and soul-inspired rock. In this studio session, host David Dye chats with Trucks and special guest Susan Tedeschi about his new album, Already Free.

If he's ever homesick, Jeremy Messersmith just needs to play his new album, The Silver City. It brims with nostalgia for his Minneapolis home, with breezy storytelling and '60s-style Beach Boys pop. Here, Messersmith discusses the album, which juxtaposes love and hope against an urban backdrop.

A ghostly bass plucks out notes that tremble with foreboding. A Steinway piano injects haunting, minor-key arpeggios. A woman chimes in, her voice seemingly filtered through gauze. It's natural to expect a song of apocalyptic doom, until it becomes clear that she's crooning "How Deep Is Your Love," that falsetto-fueled Bee Gees relic from the disco era.

O'Brien is a folksinger who isn't afraid to stray from tradition now and again. From his days in Hot Rize until now, he's become a force in roots music as a songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist and more. Here, he shares music from his latest, Chameleon, in a session from Folk Alley.

The Fifth Annual Portland Jazz Festival celebrated "The Shape of Jazz to Come" with jazzart-rock trio The Bad Plus and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, both playing to full houses at the historic, slightly psychedelic McMenamin's Crystal Ballroom in Portland, OR.