Listen to our 2019 Soundcheck session with Brooklyn-based guitarist and composer Yasser Tejada & the group Palotré.

The late South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim (aka "Dollar Brand") had a notable career, helped early on by Duke Ellington, and  acknowledged later by Nelson Mandela, w...

On this episode of Soundcheck, a great band bids farewell after a monumental career that lasted more than a quarter of a century. American avant-garde group The Bad Plus spent long ye...

After almost a decade-long wait, Grammy-nominated alt-country artist Tift Merritt returns with a new record and performs some of her songs solo for this edition of Soundcheck.

Chamber pop duo Gracie and Rachel bring their confessional lyrics, ethereal vocals, dreamy soundscapes drenched in strings, guitars, and synths, back to our studio.

On this episode, revisit our Soundcheck sessions with Mexican multi-instrumentalist Julieta Venegas and Argentine rock 'n' roll icon Marilina Bertoldi.

Multi-instrumentalist Zoh Amba, who's known in the avant-garde jazz world as a saxophonist, turns their attention to new territory that is really a homecoming: gritty folk-rock music.

Helado Tropical ("tropical ice cream") is a collaboration between Helado Negro, the experimental pop project of Ecuadorian-American singer/songwriter Roberto Carlos Lange, and Reyna T...

New York’s history as a city of immigrants has had a huge impact on music. Six-time Grammy-winning pianist Arturo O’Farrill follows in the footsteps of his father, Chico O’Farrill, a ...