Feb 8, 2024 11:41 AM
Jazz Academy Bolsters the Scene in Charleston
New Orleans is often called the “birthplace of jazz,” and it certainly has an incredibly rich musical heritage that…
Feb 8, 2024 11:41 AM
New Orleans is often called the “birthplace of jazz,” and it certainly has an incredibly rich musical heritage that…
Feb 8, 2024 11:32 AM
The idea of a big fish in a small pond is a cliché. But how about being a big fish in a comfortably sized pond…
Feb 8, 2024 11:28 AM
When Bert Ligon retired as director of jazz studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia after 30 years,…
Feb 8, 2024 11:18 AM
Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, founded in 1921, celebrated its centennial a year late because…
Feb 6, 2024 2:15 PM
At the beginning of November 2023, Greg Osby flew to Italy for a week of duo concerts with pianist Michele Franzini,…
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For Johnathan Blake, every record is an act of remembrance. Over the past two decades, the Philadelphia-born and New…
Jan 31, 2024 2:48 PM
In 2020, writer and director John Scheinfeld released the feature documentary Herb Alpert Is … . “I liked it, but I…
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Pianist-composer Sean Mason lives in New York — he moved there in 2018 to attend Juilliard — but he remains deeply…
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In the land of 1,001 tech startups, Steven Lugerner and Ross Eustis decided to launch a record label.
Founded in…
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There was a time, back in the mid-’90s, when trumpeter Nicholas Payton was being hyped as a Young Lion on the scene.…