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Jazz musicians today find profound inspiration in a lot of different places, from Chicago to rural Louisiana prisons, and from old standards to biology class. Hear new music from Howard Wiley, Rebecca Martin, Henry Threadgill and the band Herculaneum.

BBC Radio's Jazz on 3 program showcases the richness of the U.K. jazz scene with a particular emphasis on seeking out and supporting young talent. Host Jez Nelson and the rest of the team pick out some recent British jazz albums everyone should keep on their radar.

The artists on this week's All Songs Considered take some surprising turns on their latest releases.

In this week's installment of Alt.Latino, hear a collection of outstanding cover songs, from the bizarre to the sublime. A Mexican glam-rock band wipes the tears off a sad pop tune and gives it an edge, while a Colombian singer turns a macho ballad into a feminist song -- and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

On this week's show, we invite Josh Norek, VP of Nacional Records and host of WEXT's The Latin Alternative, to put together a list of essential Latin Alternative/Rock en Español songs.

This week, the Mexican vocalist sits in with Alt.Latino to talk about her latest album and a few of her favorite new artists.

Some of jazz's all-time greats will play a legendary festival in the seaside Rhode Island town next weekend. Not all the acts are quite so well-known -- but many of them deserve to be. Hear music from Fly, Gretchen Parlato, Arturo O'Farrill and the Matt Wilson Quartet.

We've got a sneak preview of the new Smith Westerns album. Also on the program, we look at the renaissance of garage rock and listen to some of the new bands making beautifully sloppy guitar noise.

Hear a garage-rock track from the Spanish band Kokoshca, the funky electronic cumbia of Colombia's Monareta, a great remix of Panamanian rap duo Los Rakas, Colombian singer Etelvina Maldonado (remixed by DJs Uproot Andy and Geko Jones) and more.

Pack light, because on this week’s show we're covering a lot of musical ground. A Panamanian rocker honors traditional percussion, a former Menudo wows us, Dominican sisters tell us to relax -- and then we jet off to Italy to collect fantastic covers of classic songs.