Michelle Mercer

This Oklahoma City venue is showcasing the role of protest music in the Trump era, and how songwriting can also bridge the political divide.

Mendonça, one of Brazil's most popular pop stars, is solidifying her reputation as the face of a new genre: "feminejo," which is injecting a female perspective into the region's pop-country music.

Saxophonist and composer Greg Ward's Stomping Off From Greenwood is a love letter to the city where he came of age as a musician.

The latest album from composer Miguel Zenón, Yo Soy la Tradición, is an eight-part suite written as an homage to his native home of Puerto Rico.

Luciana Souza is a Grammy-nominated jazz singer and composer best known for thoughtful takes on her native Brazilian songs. In The Book of Longing, she explores saudade, or yearning.

In 2013, jazz composer and alto saxophonist Caroline Davis got some troubling news: Her father had a potentially dangerous condition — arrhythmia. His heart was beating irregularly. Her concern for him lead to a unique, musical response, and a new album.

Ellen Andrea Wang is one of the most recognizable jazz artists in Norway. Wang studied classical violin for ten years before switching to the bass at sixteen and studying jazz at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Music reviewer Michelle Mercer says her sophomore album Blank Out reflects 1980s art pop as much as jazz.

Robert Glasper, Kendrick Scott, Ambrose Akinmusire and a handful of other Blue Note stars join forces on a new album called Our Point of View.

The jazz saxophonist and composer's new album is a dense work that musically maps the sport of boxing.

After leaving a successful career in Israel to earn his place in New York's jazz scene, the guitarist proudly bears the fruit of his labor on his first self-produced album.