Music
The banjo’s African relative makes its American debut via a new Smithsonian Folkways album.
The program was a delight, especially for those, like this reviewer, who, for years, have yearned to visit Paris again. Aurally, Skylark flew us there.
Rossini’s one-act opera from 1812 rings fresh changes on a host of comic-opera clichés.
This Craft reissue is welcome for the presence and distinctness of its sound, and for the state-of-the-art playing. Art Pepper will be going through my head for days.
Jason Moran, as virtuoso pianist and bandleader, enacted all of jazz history at the keyboard, from ragtime to no time, as the saying goes.
A new recording of Benjamin Britten’s remarkable 1954 opera packs considerable ghostly punch.
The Birth of Bop contains performances from some important participants in the bop revolution — Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Milt Jackson, Allen Eager, Fats Navarro, Max Roach, J.J. Johnson, and others.
“I love music, I play every day,” John Lodge says. “I don’t want to let the audience down or myself or the members of my band. They give me 150% every night so I have to be physically and mentally right for them.”
Without us even knowing it, Burt Bacharach opened up our ears.
Music Interview: YouTube Algorithm Causes Major Disruption to Jazz Video Guy, Bret Primack
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