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The a cappella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo has been singing the story of South Africa for more than 40 years. On its latest album, the group has recorded an album of Zulu songs traditionally sung by parents to their children.

Stuffed in a desk in North Germany is a small box with one of the world's most unique and perplexing collections. Charlotte Ruchhöft has collected more than 500 balls from fountain pens.

Rita Lee, the Brazilian singer, musician and composer, has died at 75.

Louis Armstrong's version of Joe "King" Oliver's tune "West End Blues" was a hit in the late '20s.

One day, musicologist John Work happened to record an obscure street singer's blues talent. Discovering that field recording leads commentator Bruce Nemerov to reflect on how the blues were marketed before World War II.

The out-of-print and much-coveted album combines a dramatically spare sound with a heavy backbeat.

The saxophonist and his quartet cross-pollinate Indian classical music and vintage Captain Beefheart to create complicated rhythms and solos reminiscent of jazz-rock fusion.

When Monk's band arrived late in San Francisco, it inspired a solo album recorded in 1959.

The alternative country singer from West Texas pays tribute to his late father on an album of honky-tonk country classics, Come on Back. He describes his introduction to country music -- and seeing Johnny Cash perform for the first time -- in a 2005 interview with Terry Gross.

Beck, one the most acclaimed guitarists in rock and roll history, died Tuesday after contracting bacterial meningitis, according to his family.