George Mason Jazz Ensemble, dreamers all!
(Photo: Joyce Boghosian)Sep 18, 2025 11:39 AM
Going to college to study music can be a daunting feat. Where should you go? How do you even think about getting in? How can you afford it, considering a musician’s income after…
Aug 11, 2025 11:56 PM
Eddie Palmieri is a dynamo at the piano: digging deep into a solo, rolling out the complex pattern of a montuno, and leaping from his keyboard to urge on his jazz-hot Afro-Caribbean orchestra as it tears through hip harmonic motifs set in rock-steady claves to thrill smart listeners and swirling dancers alike. As he has since the ’60s with such bands as La Perfecta and Harlem River Drive — and with successive generations of jazz players from vibist Cal Tjader to the final alumni of Art Blakey’s college of musical knowledge — Palmieri rejects…
