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

Boasting a warm, finely burnished tone and a robust melodic and harmonic imagination, tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander has been exploring new musical worlds from the outset. He started out on piano as ...

An untold number of albums have been released since the long-playing record came into being amid the technological and ...

Brendan Dine was initially hesitant about joining band in middle school, but he changed his tune and was recently named the No. 1 high school flute player in Michigan. The recent Bay City Central ...

John William Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina. At the age of three his family moved to High Point, NC, where young Coltrane spent his early years. His father, John ...

Not everyone can recognize Mozart’s Gran Partita as quickly as bassoonist Matthew Karr. “If you hear three seconds of it, if a woodwind player hears three seconds of it on the radio, we can identify ...

Ten talented band students have been selected to participate in the University of Montana All Star Band Festival in Missoula ...

Rafael Toral’s most recent album, 2024’s Spectral Evolution, consisted of a single 42-minute track, divided into loose, ...

The distinction between composition and improvisation has always been fraught territory in the discourse surrounding jazz; ...

Craft Recordings —the boutique audiophile arm of Concord Music and guardian of legendary labels like Fantasy, Prestige, Riverside, Milestone, and Savoy—continues its noble mission of reviving rare ...

Rafael Toral’s most recent album, 2024’s Spectral Evolution, consisted of a single 42-minute track, divided into loose, flowing movements, but based on the chord changes of the Gershwin chestnut “I ...