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At the 47th annual Grammy Awards, Ray Charles' final album, Genius Loves Company, earns eight Grammys, including album of the year and record of the year, for his duet with Norah Jones. Singer Alicia Keys came away with four Grammys and R&B artist Usher won three.

Musician and Day to Day contributor David Was reviews a new recording of motets by the 14th-century composer Machaut. Was finds some very modern elements in the music, performed by the Grammy-nominated Hilliard Ensemble.

"Saturday Night Live" once aired a rock industry spoof where a producer, played by Christopher Walken, wanted to deliver "more cowbell" to a song being recorded. Storyteller Mitch Myers thinks that there is something to the cowbell in rock music that does go beyond the music.

Get ready for some high-energy hijinx from this 11-member Romanian Gypsy group. The band was discovered by two Belgian world music fanatics in 1989 in the rural town of Cjelani, 25 miles outside of Bucharest.

For generations, New York's Village Vanguard has been at the center of American jazz. Ashley Kahn reports on the celebration marking the 70th anniversary of the legendary club.

Broadway and opera lyricist Murray Horwitz takes a closer look at each of the five tunes nominated for best song at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony, and evaluates what makes a song memorable long after the movie fades from memory.

The music of M.I.A, a young hip-hop artist who grew up in Sri Lanka and South London, bridges the gap between her war-torn past and her urban present. Day to Day music critic Christian Bordal reviews her CD, Arular.

The Deering Banjo Company is the Cadillac of banjo makers. It's also the Chevrolet. The San Diego company makes banjos priced from under $400 to more than $50,000. That range has helped the family run business survive and grow for nearly 30 years.

NPR presents "The Man and His Music," a special two-hour edition of Jazz Profiles, plus on-demand audio of the swinging Count Basie Centennial Concert featuring the Jon Faddis All-Stars and recorded live at the 2004 Caramoor Festival in Katonah, N.Y.

McLagan played with the first generation of British rockers, handling keyboards for both the Small Faces and Faces, led by vocalist Rod Stewart and guitarist Ron Wood. McLagan produced a new box set of Faces recordings, Five Guys Walk Into a Bar.