We join the music community around the world in grieving the loss of the formidable Jeanne Lamon, Music Director Emerita...
You might think that the fact that while a Black person was once considered 3/5th of a human being by the United States Constitution [the “Three-fifths...
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...
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...
With every recording she has produced Ayelet Rose Gottlieb has always given notice that she is an artist of the...
“Scatman”… the moniker for Benjamin Sherman Crothers is a dead giveaway for the kind of rhythmic vocalastics he practiced before...
The big, rolled and warm notes of Joel Frahm’s saxophones are all over the liquefying, molten repertoire on The Bright...
You might think that the fact that while a Black person was once considered 3/5th of a human being by...
The nature of exile [παρεπίδημος or parepidémos] is rooted in both mythology and history and is often expressed as a...
The obsession with trying to define or assign a meaning to the word “jazz” is almost as old as the...
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...