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Musician Joseph Arthur's fourth full-length CD, Our Shadows Will Remain, is sure to garner critical acclaim and add to Arthur's league of loyal fans. Music critic Christian Bordal recently caught a live performance of Arthur in Los Angeles, and shares his impression of the musician and his stage presence.

NPR's Rob Sachs profiles musician Charlie Clouser, who scored the soundtrack for the horror film Saw. Clouser has a history of writing provocative music as a former member of the band Nine Inch Nails.

Pianist and composer Geri Allen knew she wanted to be a jazz musician after spending most of her childhood listening to her father's jazz albums. Allen tells NPR's Liane Hansen about The Life of a Song, her latest CD.

Richard Shindell moved from New York to Buenos Aires four years ago. His latest album Vuelta, a collaboration with the Argentine band Puente Celeste, shows the folk musician has learned a new lyrical language.

Take two hip-hop artists on different sides of the Atlantic Ocean, add a dash of online communication, and you get the musical duo Foreign Exchange. NPR's Renee Montagne talks to Emcee Phonte Coleman of North Carolina and producer Nicolay Rook of the Netherlands about their collaboration and Connected, the album it sparked.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with Chris Douridas of member station KCRW in Santa Monica, Calif., about three up-and-coming female singers: Joanna Newsom, Polly Paulusma and Jesca Hoop.

When Sarah Vaughan was a rising jazz star in her 20s, she recorded The Quintessence. The collection features solos by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Teddy Wilson, Bud Powell, and others.

Producer Roy Hurst talked with Congolese-born pop singer Marie Daulne, AKA Zap Mama. Her latest album is called Ancestry In Progress.

Music critic Ashley Kahn reviews a single song, "Hey Bartender," from the latest best-hits CD Selected Shorts by barroom balladeer Dan Hicks. He says it's as good a recording as the iconoclastic singer has ever made.

Bassist Charlie Haden talks with Roy Hurst about his role in the creation of the genre known as "free jazz." Haden's latest CD is Land of the Sun.