A Sacred Space Where 90-Year-Old Jazz Records Reign

At the Hot Club of New York, patrons revisit the music’s past by spinning shellac 78 RPM discs of recordings made in the ...

Medical Mysteries: A high-schooler with hip pain, then a life-threatening diagnosis

Lauren Casey was 15 and a tenor sax player in her Minnesota high school marching band when the pain in her hip and lower back ...

Kai Hutchins, beloved saxophonist outside Giants and 49ers games, dies at 93

Kai Hutchins, who died at his home in Bernal Heights at 93 years old, wore team uniforms while playing his saxophone in front ...
MusicFestNews

The Class of 1970: The Mothers of Invention — Frank Zappa — ‘Chunga’s Revenge’

MusicFestNews is an online music festival and concert publication. Updated daily with new music, reviews, music fest photos, ...
ClickOnDetroit

Go 4 It: Community members donate instruments to students through Detroit nonprofit’s annual drive

On a crisp October day, musicians, parents, and longtime Detroit residents lined up outside Detroit Harmony on Cass Avenue to ...

Even surrounded by an orchestra, Lime Cordiale’s charisma shines through

The collaboration was unexpected but hearing a new take on the band’s beloved songs was an illuminating experience.
Washington City Paper

Swing Beat: Paul Carr Replaces Fred Irby III as Director of the Howard University Jazz Ensemble

Howard University is very fortunate to have Maestro Carr on its music faculty,” Irby says of his successor, Paul Carr.
The New Yorker

A Tenor Comes and Goes—Hallelujah!—Lassooing Songs—Early Ivories

All that could be heard was the remnant of tenor tones that must have been thrilling in days when phonograph records were a greater drain on the purse. A little later, we saw Paoli in the flesh—no ...