Despite what we’re sometimes led to believe, jazz hasn’t been relegated to the halls of academia, it isn’t background music, and it certainly isn’t dead. It’s constantly in the DNA of the music that ...

Since your scribe last visited the Jazz Juniors competition in 2018, this steadily evolving festival has undergone further changes, not least the appointment of saxophonist Adam Pierończyk as artistic ...

The most notable classical-music story here in 2021 merited national attention, thanks to the debut of the San Diego Symphony’s new $85 million year-round outdoor concert venue, The Rady Shell at ...

Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

Saxophonist Sam Gendel, pictured above, had a busy 2021 working on his own projects and contributing to albums such as Mach-Hommy’s “Balens Cho.” (Austen Hooks) Perspective by Andy Beta In 2018, Los ...

Tracks: Revolución; Latino America; Buenos Aires; Ernesto; Padres (a Papà e Gato); Manhatten (a Carla e Dollar); Roma 1962 (a Enrico e Franco); Paris Last; Café Montmartre (a Aldo e Don); Laura; Ojos ...

Jazz music can have many moods and themes, but as we soon round off our second year in a global pandemic, our hosts found themselves turning to joyful and expressive music. Feel the many moods of the ...

If the last two years have taught us anything, it would have to be finding a (shaky, perhaps) balance between celebrating life while continuing to grieve. This year, the music community bid farewell ...