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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Latin jazz legend Eddie Palmieri about turning 81 and his first album in 10 years, Sabiduria.

The Ohio Renaissance Festival is open now and runs till the end of October. WYSO traveled just south of Dayton to find out why thousands of people spend late summer and early fall traveling back to the 1500s.

Jazz bandleader Kamasi Washington has released Fearless Movement, a new album inspired by dance.

Napster, a free, online music-sharing platform was created 25 years ago. It didn't last long, but we look at how it made lasting changes to the way we consume music.

Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., speaks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., which is in the district he represents in Congress.

Famous for his collaborations with Miles Davis, Evans brought orchestral colors and textures to jazz, and was a pioneer of the "cool" sound.

A selection of 25 deep, joyful, rewarding albums from every genre, out of every corner of the world, from the first six months months of 2014, picked by NPR Music.

Roger Federer, who last year won his seventh Wimbledon title, is out of the 2013 tournament after falling to Ukrainian Sergei Stakhovsky. Maria Sharapova also lost. The upsets come two days after Rafael Nadal, who was in the same side of the bracket as Federer, was upset in the first round.

Host, Executive Producer, Idea Man, and Top Dog of State of the Re:Union, Al Letson has received national recognition and built a devoted fan base with soul-stirring, interdisciplinary work. He established himself early in his career as a heavyweight in the Poetry Slam Movement, which garnered artistic credibility and renown. Performing on a number of national, regional and local stages including HBO's Def Poetry Jam, CBS's Final Four PreGame Show and commercial projects for Sony, the Florida Times Union, Adobe Software, and the Doorpost Film Project, Al has honed his professional voice and artistic sensibilities into a unique brand that is all his own. After winning the Public Radio Talent Quest, Al received a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to create three episodes of his public radio show concept State of the Re:Union. His company finished their first grant in August of 2009 and has just been awarded one of the largest public radio grants every given to a single project to produce a full season of shows.

Uncovering the layers of weirdness in the many fights over the ways music was employed as theater during this week's Republican national convention.