Every September since 1958, the Monterey Jazz Festival has transformed the municipal fairgrounds into a vast, sun-speckled California music weekend. JazzSet picks the best moments from last fall's 50th Monterey Jazz Festival, including performances from Gerald Wilson and Otis Taylor.

Named for the little slice of New York City that gave rise to Tito Puente, pianist Oscar Hernandez's Spanish Harlem Orchestra celebrates the rhythms of salsa music. The Grammy-winning group played a fiery set at the 2008 Portland Jazz Festival.

Four French musicians and an American bassist swept the U.S. to present the hot club music of Django Reinhardt. Hear their flying fingers and sizzling strings in a concert recorded at the Kennedy Center Jazz Club in Washington, D.C., for JazzSet.

Thielemans is the man who made the harmonica a jazz instrument. In a Brazilian-heavy set recorded at the 2005 Tanglewood Jazz Festival, he's joined by Oscar Castro-Neves, Airto, and pianist Kenny Werner. Now in his 80s, Thielemans still loves to play. Collaboration between WBGO and WGBH.