When you’ve been around music for a while, it’s fun to realize how far you go back with some artists. Case in point: Rebecca Roudman and her band Dirty Cello play Kuumbwa Jazz Friday night. In a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A family relic passed down to a youngster. A trip to a special event. It’s impossible to know the impact of such simple gestures.
Jody Redhage Ferber, passionate advocate of creative new music and chamber music, is a "a new music dynamo...Redhage is cultivating a growing repertoire of indie art song that breaches genre ...
Joan Jeanrenaud was born and raised on a small farm outside Memphis, Tennessee. She started playing the cello at age 11 and began studying with Peter Spurbeck the following year. As a teenager, ...
We are floating on bodies of sound. They move freely, obscuring borderlines between categories that once loomed like separate land masses: jazz and chamber music; acoustic and electric ensembles; ...
This is FRESH AIR. More jazz musicians died in 2022 than we have time to acknowledge. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead remembers a few jazz musicians who passed this year, starting with cello player Abdul ...
If the violin can be considered the “heart” of the chamber music ensemble, then the cello must be considered its “soul.” And ...
A family relic passed down to a youngster. A trip to a special event. It’s impossible to know the impact of such simple gestures.