In 1975 he composed a jazz opera entitled How Music Can Save the World, dedicated to those who helped his son recover.

His works include a jazz opera, Man in Cage, which was performed in 1930 while he was still at university.

I didn't mean for this to be a jazz opera, which many will automatically think I was chosen for.

It has been described by Fishman as "a tone poem, a jazz opera, a musical inquiry."

Mr. Baraka has since written 20 plays, 13 volumes of poetry, 3 jazz operas and 2 novels.

Sunday nights at 8:30 through July 29, Howard Fishman Quartet, including music from a jazz opera in progress.

Together they created the experimental one-act jazz opera Blue Monday, set in Harlem.

This weekend, however, the orchestra is offering a program of highlights from Gershwin's perennially popular jazz opera as its contribution to the "Celebrate Brooklyn!"

The piece is a sort of jazz opera with 12-tone interludes.

Radio Clásica primarily broadcasts classical music, but also features folk music, jazz, flamenco, zarzuela, opera and popular music.