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Jamaican producer Lee "Scratch" Perry has died at age 85. His idiosyncratic work in reggae and dub had an oversize impact on popular music around the globe.

Perry's brilliant and idiosyncratic career included helping to inspire the sounds of dub and rap as we know them today.

Though she's made careful study of the history of South Asian music, Zeb Bangash's career defies easy assumptions about art and Islam.

Canada released Meng Wanzhou, a Chinese tech executive who was arrested nearly three years ago on fraud charges by U.S. request. And then, China released two imprisoned Canadian men.

Drummer and composer Antonio Sanchez's album, Lines In The Sand, is a cinematic homage to the journeys of migrants heading to the U.S. border. It's a formidable, epic series of compositions.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Peter Smerdon of the United Nations World Food Programme about the organization's funding shortages that are making it harder to feed refugees.

The founders of Fania Records didn't set out to change the course of Latin music, but that's just what they did. The label went out of business in the late 1970s, and the records have since become hard-to-find collector's items. Now, a Miami-based record label is reissuing that music.

Roman Panchenko moved to Poland from Chernihiv a few years ago and was afraid of singing in the streets. But now, after the war started, he sings Ukrainian songs in a Warsaw plaza to help his country.

The third album from the William Parker Quartet is named Petit Oiseau, after a character in a poem written by Parker. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead assesses whether the album — whose French title translates to "Little Bird" — takes flight.

The Baltimore Symphony conductor chooses a season of music built on the belief that understanding where we come from, and celebrating diversity, can create a sense of continuity, history and belonging — not to mention some great concerts.