Apr 5, 2022 1:29 PM
Joe Fiedler Can Tell You How To Get to Sesame Street
With Fuzzy And Blue — his second volume of Sesame Street songs following the 2019 release of Open Sesame —…
Fiedler and crew return for a second batch of rearranged, reharmonized Sesame Street tunes. From left: Michael Sarin, Sean Conly, Fiedler, Steven Bernstein and Jeff Lederer.
Apr 5, 2022 1:29 PM
With Fuzzy And Blue — his second volume of Sesame Street songs following the 2019 release of Open Sesame —…
“In many ways, truth has been stranger than fiction, and that is what I have been feeling,” Gordon says.
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As a young boy living amid poverty and dysfunction in a home on Staten Island, Jon Gordon clung to the thought that the…
Helfer has long given children and adults lessons in the living room of his home.
Mar 29, 2022 11:38 AM
Blues, boogie, jazz and American roots pianist Erwin Helfer is the unlikely but grateful poster boy for survival of the…
The 2022 NEA Jazz Masters
Mar 29, 2022 11:15 AM
All four of this year’s NEA Jazz Masters honorees — Stanley Clarke, Donald Harrison Jr., Billy Hart and Cassandra…
“I have to continue the conversation and shed light on the fact that Black women have always been undervalued, not protected and not cared for,” Charles says.
Mar 29, 2022 11:09 AM
As a singer, flutist, beat-maker, remixer and conceptualist, Melanie Charles saturates Ya’ll Don’t (Really) Care…
“We’re sacrificing our bodies to innate feeling and becoming vessels for this music,” Wilkins says.
Mar 29, 2022 10:55 AM
“My work is the intersection between spiritual practice and Black aesthetics,” Immanuel Wilkins says. “The two…
Vadim Neselovskyi performs in Lviv, Ukraine, in 2017.
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In June 2017, Vadim Neselovskyi played a concert at the Soviet-era Palace of Culture Mettalurgov in Mariupol, Ukraine,…
Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra recorded four albums of music in four days.
Mar 15, 2022 12:01 PM
As a ubiquitous figure on the New York scene for more than three decades, trumpeter Steven Bernstein has written…
A Time For Healing band members, from left, Isiah Collier, Justin Dillard, Corey Wilkes and Kahil El’Zabar.
Mar 15, 2022 11:54 AM
The laid-back, metronomic bounce and slap of percussionist Kahil El’Zabar’s earth drum (in tandem with contrapuntal…
“It’s been my goal to write and record new types of opportunities for improvisation,” Jamie Baum says.
Mar 15, 2022 11:48 AM
The Jamie Baum Septet breezed into Dizzy’s Club in New York this February premiering a variety of pandemic-inspired…