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She's best known for her original songwriting, but her cool, insinuating delivery is perfect for classics, too. She visits NPR's Studio 4A for a performance from her latest album, The Cole Porter Mix — plus a certain Valentine's Day standard.

A ghostly bass plucks out notes that tremble with foreboding. A Steinway piano injects haunting, minor-key arpeggios. A woman chimes in, her voice seemingly filtered through gauze. It's natural to expect a song of apocalyptic doom, until it becomes clear that she's crooning "How Deep Is Your Love," that falsetto-fueled Bee Gees relic from the disco era.

The avant-garde improviser used to joke: "I do country music; it's just a matter of what country." Now on his first North American tour in more than two decades, he describes his atmospheric electronics and soft, subtle trumpet style.

Joss Whedon's new television show, Dollhouse, follows a group of young women and men who have volunteered to have their personalities and memories erased.

The twins, both veterans of rock, improvisation and new music in Southern California, have released new albums simultaneously. And though they don't play on each others' discs, their shared aesthetics date back to the womb.

Blind from birth, Eaglin learned to play the guitar by listening to the radio. He created mesmerizing rhythm and lead tracks from a unique style that utilized his thumbnail. Pianist Allen Toussaint says he was "unlimited on the guitar." Eaglin died Wednesday of a heart attack.

Trumpeter Christian Scott is a relatively new voice in jazz music, but he is already challenging the genre's conventional thinking. Scott has picked a fight with some famous jazz purists, and he's holding his ground. Tony Cox speaks with Scott about jazz music's past, present, and future.

Pizzarelli is known as one of jazz's great chord soloists, as well as an extraordinary rhythm player. Now 83, Pizzarelli was recently honored by the New York Public Library as one of its speakers at the "Duke Jazz Talks," an interview series in which he performed with his son, John Pizzarelli.

After making her debut on the telenovela Luz Clarita, Sarinana became a household name in Mexico. Now, with the release of her solo album Mediocre, the 23-year-old has become an international success.

Nascimento's miraculous voice is one gift. Brazilian music is another — passionate and in an innately beautiful language. It's his birthday on Oct. 26, so we celebrate with last year's celebration at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, with Newark's Portuguese-speaking community understanding every word, the world-renowned Nascimento celebrates bossa nova pioneer Antonio Carlos Jobim.