May 23, 2018 9:00 AM
Maria Pia De Vito Connects Cultures Through Translations
Singer Maria Pia De Vito folds her facility for more than a dozen languages into her recordings.
Her latest album,…
Maria Pia De Vito’s embrace of the Portuguese language has resulted in the singer making connections between seemingly disparate musical traditions.
May 23, 2018 9:00 AM
Singer Maria Pia De Vito folds her facility for more than a dozen languages into her recordings.
Her latest album,…
May 22, 2018 9:40 PM
One of the most influential and versatile improvisers of the late 20th century, Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia…
Bassist-composer Mario Pavone (left) led his Dialect Trio, which also includes drummer Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Matt Mitchell, through a pair of sets Friday, May 18 at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, Connecticut.
May 22, 2018 9:00 AM
Bassist-composer and Connecticut’s favorite son Mario Pavone brought his dynamic Dialect Trio—featuring outstanding…
Chris Botti is scheduled to perform four sets June 24–25 at Sony Hall in New York.
May 21, 2018 1:41 PM
The Blue Note Jazz Festival, which began June 1 and is scheduled to run through June 30, includes a spate of national…
During the 1960s and 1970s, multi-instrumentalist Hailu Mergia was a star in Ethiopia as a member of the Walias Band.
May 21, 2018 9:10 AM
Hailu Mergia is hardly a household name. Still, he’s making one of the grandest and most inspiring comebacks in…
Simba Baumgartner performs May 5 at Town Hall in New York during the 12th Django A GoGo.
May 18, 2018 11:01 AM
In the span of five days in May, two major Django Reinhardt tributes took place in Manhattan, drawing hordes of…
2017’s Circles Of Chimes is Marius Neset’s most recent recording for the ACT label.
May 18, 2018 9:36 AM
Marius Neset, a Norway-born saxophonist who records for the ACT label, is set for his first North American tour.
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Chicago pianist Charles Joseph Smith says War Of The Martian Ghosts, which he began composing in the ’90s, was inspired by saxophonist Caroline Davis, the film Mars Attacks! and techniques of minimalist composers.
May 18, 2018 9:24 AM
Pianist Charles Joseph Smith always has used music to challenge limitations. When this world offered him only scant…
Bernard “Pretty” Purdie returns with his first album, Cool Down, in almost a decade.
May 17, 2018 12:52 PM
Drummer Bernard “Pretty” Purdie has issued his first album in almost a decade—Cool Down (Sugar Road…
Emma-Jean Thackray began her life as a musician in a Yorkshire brass band.
May 17, 2018 9:20 AM
Emma-Jean Thackray built her new record, Ley Lines, in the upstairs studio of her cozy and colorful South London flat,…
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