Jazz
Jazz organ pioneer Dr. Lonnie Smith comes to the Rockport Jazz Festival.
Shalin Liu Becomes a Jazz Destination: Wynton Marsalis Headlines the Rockport Music Summer Gala fundraiser.
This year I resolved to do an unapologetic fan experience at Newport Jazz.
Most of the can’t-miss acts on this year’s Lowell Folk Fest roster are artists who make preserving musical traditions a family business.
Readers inspired to take a listening journey from Gioia’s historical perspective will benefit greatly from his delineation of jazz’s various forms.
Ben Ratliff’s volume about how to listen to music is full of fairly radical but largely undefended assertions.
Time has only made the members of this trio more adventurous as well as accomplished.
It’s easy to recommend this new two disc set, where the miracle that was Charlie Parker is on glorious display again and again.
Summer has arrived thermally and is due to arrive astronomically early next wee; New England offers a geographically diverse menu of jazz festivals.
Book Review and Commentary: Testaments to the Wonderful Ears of Ralph J. Gleason
A writer has to write for the now or to write for the ages. Gleason almost always chose the now, but his best moments go deeper.
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