Music

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia (1933-1944).

He becomes the music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2003. Formerly music director for the Houston Symphony, Eschenbach is currently Conductor Laureate for that symphony. He is the music director of the Orchestre de Paris and Germanys Hamburg NDR Symphony Orchestra. He has also been the music director of the Ravinia Festival, summer home to the Chicago Symphony since 1994. He was named director for the Philadelphia Orchestra in January of this year.

Music Review: Babyface and Alicia Keys

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews The Rock: Stone Cold Country 2001, the new album by country singer George Jones.

Former lead singer of the indie-rock band the Del Fuegos, Dan Zanes. When he became a father he realized he couldn't stomach music for kids, so started writing his own. He also formed the Rocket Ship Revue, a touring band that performs dance-party shows for kids. His first CD Dan Zanes and Friends Rocket Ship Beach received a Parents Choice Award and the kids liked it too. It also featured Suzanne Vega and Sheryl Crow. Zanes' new CD is Family Dance.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Love and Theft (Columbia) the new release by Bob Dylan.

Nick Lowe brings his guitar to the studio for music and conversation. The British singer-songwriter and producer has had a long and varied career. In the late sixties, he played bass and sang for the pop band Kippington Lodge. In the seventies, he produced albums for Graham Parker and the Rumour, The Damned, Dave Edmunds and Elvis Costello. Lowe co-founded Stiff Records, one of the premier labels for punk rock. Then, his own solo career took off with the release of the single "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass." He has continued to both produce and sing.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reflects on what music he has and hasn't been listening to.

We remember violinist Isaac Stern He died Saturday at the age of 81. He died of heart failure.

Rock Historian Ed Ward brings us up to date on soul singer Howard Tate

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Fan Dance, the new recording by Sam Phillips, and her first album in five years.

Rock and roll historian Ed Ward considers the Philly sound that came out of Philadelphia.

Rock historian Ed Ward looks back at the music of Sam Cooke.

Rock historian Ed Ward reviews a new 4-CD box set from Buffalo Springfield

World music critic Milo Miles profiles Indigedisc, a new record label that specializes in vintage and current African pop.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the new NSync CD, entitled Celebrity.

Rock historian Ed Ward remembers Beale street 1952 the place in Memphis that launched the careers of Ike Turner, Rosco Gordon, Bobby Bland, Little Junior Parker, and B.B. King.

Otis Taylor brings his banjo to the studio for a concert and conversation. We'll hear tracks from his new CD, White African. Taylor plays guitar and ukelele in addition to banjo. His music is often described as minimalist, and his lyrics are often stories of race and racism. He's been compared to John Lee Hooker.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Thrill Jockey, the new CD from the Chicago Underground Quartet. He also talks about a new re-issue of Miles Davis Live at the Fillmore East recordings.

Rock critic Ken Tucker looks at two very different female musicians: Gillian Welch, whose new CD is Time The Revelator, and Nikka Costa, whose debut release is Everybody Got their Something.