Jazz
Live, the experience of a cosmic rhythm with every stroke is both more intense and more intriguing than on record.
Pianist Vijay Iyer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith produce music that is precise and quietly evocative, peaceful and gently probing.
Pianist/arranger/composer Billy Childs’s aim was to reimagine Nyro’s music.
These live recordings capture Weather Report’s sound during its most celebrated years.
When she composes a song, she said, it’s her guitar, rather than her voice, that “chooses the key. The guitar is the boss.”
Iconic second-generation bossa nova composer, singer, and guitarist Joyce Moreno.
How does one keep a big band together long enough to make such brilliantly evocative sessions as that by Maria Schneider and the others listed here?
Top of the Hub was one of the very rare places in the country where ordinary folks would bump into jazz every night.
Music Review/Commentary: David Bowie’s “Blackstar” and Norbert Stein’s “Das Karussell” — When Words Rule Music
Both David Bowie and Norbert Stein present distinctive and subtle approaches to the hybridizing of poetry and music.
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