Music

Television Critic David Bianculli previews the HBO concert special of Billy Joel's recent performances in Leningrad.

Jazz Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews "Days Aweigh," the new album by singer Cassandra Wilson.

Folk singer Bill Staines will perform two songs that reflect on the change in seasons.

Cousin Brucie, one of the leading top-40 DJs in New York City in the early 60s when AM radio was king and New York radio set the national tastes in pop music.

Rock Critic Ken Tucker will review "All Fired Up," the new release from country-rock musician Bobby Lee Springfield.

Classical Music Critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a CBS compact disc re-issue featuring the late George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra in a performance of Mozart's "Sinfonia Concertante."

Buck Clayton, jazz trumpeter, arranger and band leader. He was a member of Count Basie's original band.

K.D. Lang, Canadian country and blues singer, who brings a compelling theatricality to her performances.

Rock historian Ed Ward profiles the late New Orleans blues pianist and singer Smiley Lewis, a talent Ward says was consistently overlooked.

Folksinger Hazel Dickens. She sings and appears in the John Sayles film "Matewan." Dickens is best known for her traditional renditions of country and folk tunes and for her songs of protest.

Jazz Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews a reissue of the "The Complete Coleman Hawkins," a set of four compact discs that captures highlights of the 1944 recording sessions of the renown tenor saxophonist.

Performance artist Meredith Monk. Her interdisciplinary art fuses elements of dance, film, theater and music. Her new collection of songs combines half-sounds like shrieks, sobs and moans into a unified and startling whole.

Brazilian composer and guitarist Orlando Haddad will perform two songs popularized in Brazilian films.

A live concert featuring Kansas City pianist Jay McShann. As a big band leader in the 40s and 50s, McShann helped start the careers of jazz stars like Charlie Parker and Big Joe Turner.

Rock Critic Ken Tucker will review "Tunnel of Love," the new and long-awaited Bruce Springsteen solo album.

Moe Tucker, drummer for The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed's band that won cult status in the mid-70s.

Rock historian Ed Ward looks at Smokey Robinson's early recordings, when he was the lead singer of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and one of Motown's top acts.

Jazz Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews "Shades," the new album by pianist Andrew Hill.

American operatic baritone Sherrill Milnes. Milnes, who has sung in most of the world's major opera houses, is known primarily as a Verdi and Puccini specialist.

Polka player Guy Klucevsek. Klucevsek grew up in western Pennsylvania, a hotbed of polka playing. He'll perform "Ain't Nothing But a Polka," an excerpt from his work "Polka From the Fringe."