A Biography of Sonny Greenwich The great Ezra Pound, always forthcoming with advice – often unsolicited – to writers and poets aspiring to “make it new”...
The nature of exile [παρεπίδημος or parepidémos] is rooted in both mythology and history and is often expressed as a fate worse than death. Exile is...
Four years ago (in 2016), Dalya Alberge of The Guardian wrote that the great violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy lamented the dearth of individuality among pianists and...
Devotees of the piano are often spoiled for choice recently, but so often it is the fingers that do the proverbial talking and not the musicianship...
Andy Ballantyne may owe much to the great ancestry of Jazz saxophone such as to men like Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Giuffre, John...
You can never be sure what to expect from a musician even after you listened their earlier offering believing it would be hard to top in...
It is impossible to understate the prodigious gifts of Laila Biali; a pianist of considerable virtuosity and a vocalist of great delicacy who can also be...
The obsession with trying to define or assign a meaning to the word “jazz” is almost as old as the first soli played by the legendary...
Somehow, after two nights at Koerner Hall, on January 24th and 25th it seems appropriate to borrow from Abraham Lincoln who delivered his first inaugural address...
The reference to a “skeleton crew” can never be lost on anyone who’s ever worked the graveyard shift in a metropolis that never sleeps. It’s a...
All she has to do is sing a few bars of the first song on What a Difference a Day...
Before you wring your hands in despair and exclaim: “Oh no! Not another ‘Beatles in Latin’ recording…” think hard because...
One of the most significant aspects of the artistic contribution of Beny Esguerra to the art of the KUISi is...
The story of Music in the Barns is like a story worthy of the pen of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known as Lewis Carroll. “Why,”...
The world bemoans the plight of Ukraine, weeps at the innocent Ukrainian civilians who lie dying by the thousands from...
Every known civilisation partakes in music, though definitions of what that music is might vary wildly. Even more contentious is...
A Biography of Sonny Greenwich The great Ezra Pound, always forthcoming with advice – often unsolicited – to writers and...
Four years ago (in 2016), Dalya Alberge of The Guardian wrote that the great violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy lamented the...
Robi Botos has been hailed as one of the most diverse multi-instrumentalists of this generation. From the hard-bop style of...
Juno-award winning Jazz Saxophonist, Composer and Arranger, Allison Au refuses to be defined. Born to a Chinese father and Jewish...