Etiket: Jazz
As jazz festivals go, BRIC JazzFest is on the small but ambitious side, aspiring to...
The list of performers the pianist and arranger Mike Renzi worked with is amazingly long....
NEWARK, New Jersey — Since becoming the music director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra...
“Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s season last week, was...
Bennie Pete, a New Orleans tuba player who co-founded and led the Hot 8, one...
Ralph Irizarry, a master of the timbales who played in groups led by the conga...
George Wein, the impresario who almost single-handedly turned the jazz festival into a worldwide phenomenon,...
When Hurricane Ida swept through New Orleans late last month, it took a piece of...
Phil Schaap, who explored the intricacy and history of jazz in radio programs that he...
In 1960, while working as an artist and graphic designer, and some years before the...
Back in 1936, savvy listeners may have sensed that the novelty tune “Rhythm Saved the...