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  • Los Jornaleros del Norte's songs narrate the struggles and triumphs of immigrant workers. They've been providing the soundtrack to Los Angeles-area protests against the federal government's deportation campaign.
    These musicians are providing the soundtrack for anti-ICE protests in LA
    Los Jornaleros Del Norte play protest songs whose lyrics reflect the hopes and struggles of undocumented workers as they evade immigration agents patrolling the streets.
  • Persuading the Dead
    David Gans' Diary of the Recording Sessions
  • Spinal Tap returns with a rockin' sequel
    Spinal Tap, the band from the beloved 1984 mockumentary about a fictional rock band, is back! Their new movie is called Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.
  • Remembering pianist and jazz master Eddie Palmieri
    Palmieri, who died Aug. 6, is credited with originating Latin jazz's trombone sound. He later successfully lobbied for a new Grammy category for Afro-Caribbean jazz. Originally broadcast in 1994.
  • Louie And The Lovers: The Slow 'Rise' Of A Lost Treasure
    The name Louie Ortega doesn't spring to mind when Mexican-American contributions to rock 'n' roll history come up. But at least for some people, he's a legend based on a band he put together in Prunedale, Calif., in the late 1960s. Critic Ed Ward, who has been a fan since he first heard the band, celebrates the release of its long-rumored second album.
  • Argue's Secret Society produces 'Maximum Tension' on a lively new album
    Composer Darcy James Argue runs a jazz big band — but imagines its sound as if big bands had stayed current rather than faded away. The music's clarity, contrasts and rhythms are all impressive.
  • Live music returns, just pull up your vehicle
    Perhaps the vehicle to lead us out of the coronavirus pandemic will be our cars. The car. In which we are hermetically sealed. Unless we roll down the…
  • Al Foster, drummer for Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, has died
    The superbly alert and flexible drummer formed a swirling current in modern jazz for more than 60 years. He was 82.
  • Mike Huckabee sits in on bass with the <em>Tonight Show</em> band in 2008.
    Mike Huckabee's Musical Education
    The talk-show host and former presidential candidate also plays bass in a rock group. But he says his tastes were more shaped by the big-band jazz his parents played.
  • John Lurie
    John Lurie is a saxophone player, actor, the voice of Molson on Ice, and star of his own fishing program. His band the Lounge Lizards turns 20 this year, and Lurie has released three new music projects. All Things Considered Director Bob Boilen has a profile of this offbeat big band leader. (7:00) CD's heard in this piece are the Lounge Lizards "Queen of All Ears" and the score to Manni and Lo and African Swim, by John Lurie, all the cd's are on the label Strange and Beautiful Music
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