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Two cultural icons come together in a new documentary: Director Martin Scorsese puts rock legends the Rolling Stones center stage in Shine a Light. Scorsese tells Morning Edition it took a lot of choreography — onstage and off.

Composer and jazz clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre, who died April 24, was an early pioneer of both the cool jazz and avant-garde jazz movements of the '50s and '60s. In Giuffre's honor, WGBH presents an audio documentary recorded in 1994. The program features Giuffre telling his story in his own words.

Singer Dianne Reeves is a force to be reckoned with. She has an international reputation, and she's the only singer to win Grammy awards in a vocal category for three consecutive recordings. NPR's Tony Cox spoke with Reeves about her new album, When You Know.

In one of the best glam-rock songs to surface in recent years, The Kills' "Last Day of Magic" is unashamed of its own aggressiveness. The song, composed in rural Michigan, lets its rustic setting bleed through every note, with a resonance that's both poppy and dirty.

John Adams' early work Christian Zeal and Activity provides the hymn-like center of a musical triptych called American Standard. In a concert from the Wordless Music Series, recorded by WNYC, a string orchestra reverently performs the piece with "sonic found objects."

The nominees for the 74th Emmy Awards were announced Tuesday morning. The winners will be chosen in September.

One comes from a line of New Orleans piano geniuses. Another comes from New York's downtown scene. They bonded over old jazz, and together, inject modern twists into early repertoire.

Unsure of what was happening with her record-label relationship, the singer generated her own publicity by posting acoustic covers of pop hits on YouTube. Now, she's finally released her debut album of original songs.

When classical music could no longer contain his ambitions, he turned to Middle Eastern music, flamenco and Jimi Hendrix for inspiration. And when his cello couldn't keep up with his new ideas, he gave it an extra string.

Screeching feedback has never sounded more beautiful than it does on Ral Partha Vogelbacher's latest CD, Shrill Falcons. Frontman Chadwick Bidwell says he was listening to a lot of doom metal and noise rock when he set out to compose the album, so it's no surprise he came up with a richly textured collection of songs. Fuzzy guitars rumble over crackling synths and multi-colored, ambient drones.