Over the last three years, the Aditya Prakash Ensemble has played host to a family reunion of musical genres. In its compositions, the ensemble’s unconventional comtemporary style – an ascending scale ...

Since the appearance of jazz in the early 20th century, jazz and classical have mostly lived on opposite sides of town, separated by tracks that most listeners won’t cross. This has long remained the ...

For pianist-composer-arranger Matt Herskowitz, melding jazz and classical music is natural. It wasn’t always so. It wasn’t until his teenage years that the classically trained pianist started studying ...

Jazz people like to brag that their idiom is “America’s classical music.” But if you catch some of them in a certain mood, you’ll find that they long to merge their art with what much of the Western ...

NEW YORK - Keith Jarrett declared he was done with classical music recordings after recovering from the chronic fatigue syndrome that sidelined him for nearly two years in the late 1990s. But the jazz ...

Chicago’s Leo Sowerby (1895-1968) is remembered chiefly as a prolific composer of sacred scores, a Pullitzer-Prize winning composer famous for church cantatas, organ solos and songs. A self-taught ...

Grant's First Stand 1961; Miss Ann's Tempo; Lullaby Of The Leaves; Blues For A Willareen; Baby's Minor Lope; 'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do; A Wee Bit O' Green; Green Street 1961; No. 1 Green Street ...

The Preacher; I've Got A Woman; Blue Skies; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; My Melancholy Baby; Birks' Works; Soul Sauce (Guarachi Guaro); Prisoner Of Love; Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting; Straight, No ...

Australian composer Liza Lim, now resident in the UK, is string-obsessed, viewing string and rope as materials that have bound societies together throughout history: we weave tangled webs, we tie ...

A true giant of jazz, vibraphonist Milt Jackson (January 1, 1923 – October 9, 1999) had a prolific and influential career that began when he was discovered by bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie in 1945.