The Montreal musician Yves Jarvis spent a year ... blending genres like bluegrass, jazz, folk and even yacht-rock in unexpected ways. Jarvis joins Tom Power to tell us how his songwriting evolved ...

You can hear that sharper focus take effect in real time on the opening “With a Grain”: For its first 45 seconds, the song floats off in a splendorous cocktail-jazz daydream, before a sound ...