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Review: MTT and S.F. Symphony capture the wonder of Mahler's massive 'Resurrection' Symphony

Mar 12, 2010 12:47pm

Gustav Mahler was born 150 years ago and his music - his crazy, beautiful, angst-driven, spirit-chasing music - just keeps on giving....

Bill Ware: Played Right

Mar 10, 2010 4:28pm

Never one to swoop into the limelight or blithely steal the show, vibraphonist Bill Ware has built a model rA©sumA© that weaves silently and inscrutably through the best of most modern genres....

The Jazz Community As A Road Map

Mar 8, 2010 4:18pm

I quite like this lede: Jazz musicians are kind of like street names -- most people only know the big ones....

Artist paints a picture of the past

Mar 8, 2010 1:44am

Howard B. Stroud Elementary School students learned recently how award-winning children's book illustrator R. Gregory Christie creates the pictures that gets them to want to read a story from cover to cover....

Part 1 of 2: Producer Howard Willing discusses his history in the music industry

Mar 7, 2010 8:44pm

In a barn once owned by Gene Autry, and used as the stage front for the Mr. Ed television show, there weren't any cowboys, horses or hay....

A Good Jazz Film, Without Sensationalism?

Mar 5, 2010 7:59pm

Eric Reed will play a character based on Thelonious Monk, presumably with less dancing....

Jon Faddis & CJE offer hospitality, Senegalese style, at Friday concert

Mar 3, 2010 7:57pm

Chicago Jazz Ensemble with Jon Faddis front and center. Under the direction of trumpet titan Jon Faddis, the Chicago Jazz Ensemble has expanded its repertoire in well-considered leaps and bounds, primarily through commissions to arrangers both local and legendary ....

Turtle Island Quartet celebrates Coltrane, Hendrix in Denver: concert review

Mar 3, 2010 2:54pm

Denver Local Music Examiner rates this: Turtle Island Quartet at Lakewood Cultural Center....

Movements in Jazz, With Pollock and Coltrane

Mar 1, 2010 6:53pm

Lar Lubovitch opened his two-week run at the Joyce Theater last Tuesday night with a program underlining his abiding interest in jazz....

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Alfonzo Blackwell Honors Legend Icons John Coltrane and Michael Jackson

Mar 1, 2010 10:51am

Saxman/Songwriter/Producer, Alfonzo Blackwell is busy, busy, busy working hard in the studio on his 8th CD project on Utopia Records....

Ralph Bowen: Due Reverence

Mar 1, 2010 1:37am

Thanks to an American Idol culture and any number of other circumstances, the jazz universe is filled with extremely bright, if lesser known stars, who are just as talented as their more noted constellations....

Jazz Veteran Honors Legend Icons John Coltrane & Michael Jackson with ...

Feb 28, 2010 1:16am

All Press Releases for February 28, 2010>> Jazz Veteran Honors Legend Icons John Coltrane & Michael Jackson with New CD on Utopia Records Imprint reports One Creative Publicist and Mgmt Co....

Familiar steps, similar journey

Feb 27, 2010 6:28am

For his all-jazz program at the Joyce, Lar Lubovitch sticks to what he does best....

Herostratus: Suicide as Self-Promotion in a Lost Masterpiece

Feb 26, 2010 7:08pm

"I'm going to commit suicide." "My congratulations." Don Levy's 1967 Herostratus is in all likelihood the greatest movie-masterpiece you have never heard of....

Turtle Island, Angie Stevens and more: Denver live music weekend picks February 26-27

Feb 26, 2010 1:37pm

Angie Stevens' current release "Queen of This Mess." It's another busy music weekend in the Denver area....

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Christian Scott Covers Thom Yorke on New Album

Feb 26, 2010 8:43am

Christian Scott On March 30, star trumpeter Christian Scott will release Yesterday You Said Tomorrow , his all-new 10-song collection....

Tyner at home in Kimmel

Feb 25, 2010 8:32am

McCoy Tyner's performance Friday at the Kimmel Center in Center City owed refreshingly little to John Coltrane....

2/23: Food in 30 Years: Discuss

Feb 23, 2010 8:30am

7:30PM , more dates. MISS SMITH: You could call what Lavay Smith and her Red-Hot Skillet Lickers do retro-swing, except, no, they were around long before "Vegas, baby!" even entered the pop culture lexicon and ushered in the unfortunate zoot-suits-and-cigars-phase we all endured in the mid/late '90s. They do 1940s...

David Simon: 'Treme is a story about how American urban culture defines how we live'

Feb 22, 2010 11:56pm

The creator of The Wire discusses Martin Amis, Baltimore accents and Treme , his upcoming TV show....

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Legendary McCoy Tyner to Play Intimate Show at Mahaiwe

Feb 21, 2010 11:06am

Pianist McCoy Tyner was just a teenager when Philadelphia neighbors like Bud Powell and the young Lee Morgan began hipping him to the sounds of modern jazz....