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Perennial Jazz Fest Performers, Preservation Hall Jazz Band perform live in NPR's Studio 4A. New Orleans' tiny Preservation Hall has presented traditional jazz for more than 40 years. The hall is more famous than the musicians who play there, but the Preservation Hall Jazz Band continues to attract music lovers at home and to its concerts around the world.

playlist etc.We're spending a couple of days with an outstanding Canadian orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, which translates as The King's Violins. They stopped by NPR's Studio 4A to play the Symphony No. 5, by Franz Schubert. And Fred talks with conductor and founder Bernard Labadie.

Jerry Douglas has played the dobro — a type of slide guitar — on over 1,000 albums. He tells of falling in love with the sound of the dobro even before he knew what it was.

Rock historian Ed Ward looks back at the Jefferson Airplane. Their first four albums have just been re-mastered and re-released.

Commentator Hank Rosenfeld grew up in Detroit, Mich. — and that meant growing up with Motown music and musicians, including Marvin Gaye mowing his lawn.

Those final minutes of the day, when parents everywhere are trying to get restless kids to settle down and go to bed, are what Wynton Marsalis calls "the magic hour." It's also the title of the acclaimed trumpeter's new CD, which he says celebrates the childishness in all of us.

As the Fats Waller centennial approaches, Tom Vitale looks back at a remarkable career in both jazz and popular music. Waller — of "Ain't Misbehavin'" fame — was the first musician to be equally successful among black and white audiences.

This week Koko Taylor became the first female blues singer to received receive a National Heritage Fellowship. We take a moment to listen to her song "Spellbound."

American musical icon Ray Charles died of complications from liver disease Thursday at his Beverly Hills home. In a career that lasted more than half a century, Charles defied categorization and brought his soulful stylings to jazz, pop, country and R&B.

Legendary musician Ray Charles died Thursday at age 73. In honor of his great life and legacy, The Tavis Smiley Show is presenting a two-part tribute to Ray Charles. In 2002, Charles did his last NPR interview with NPR's Tavis Smiley. This is the first part of that conversation -- the second will follow on Monday.