Listen to excerpts from our 2007 interview about Hurricane Katrina with jazz great Terence Blanchard, who says "there has to be something for us to learn from this."

Jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard spoke with us on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina about his CD, "A Tale of God's Will: A Requiem for Katrina," and writing hopeful music about hopelessness.

Read the complete transcript of our 2007 interview with jazz musician Terence Blanchard about Katrina, New Orleans, and the spiritual roots of his music.

This month legendary jazz drummer Roy Haynes turns 85. Watch him playing in 2004 at a service at Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Jazz musician Dave Brubeck says "when I write a piece, a sacred piece, I’m looking hard and trying to discover what I’m about, and what my parents were about and the world is about."

"Dr. King liked jazz," says Rev. Michael Haynes of Twelfth Baptist Church in Boston, who invited his brother, renowned jazz drummer Roy Haynes, to be part of a special musical service honoring King.