The popular take on the Dutch Instant Composers school of jazz (spearheaded by pianist Misha Mengelberg and drummer Han Bennink for more than 30 years) is that they are clowning traditionalists. While ...
This holiday season, sing along with Indiana native Wendy Reed at Helen Haddad Hall as she performs some of everyone’s favorite holiday hits as part of the Jazz at Helen’s live music series. Born in ...
For more than a year, Edgar Alejandro left his song “A Tu Lado” in the drafts folder of his phone, unsure of what the public would make of the mariachi and jazz fusion. At the time, corridos tumbados ...
Music is solace. The day my mother died, I had a gig I couldn’t get out of. I’d been crying all day, but for those two sets it was as if it hadn’t happened. I was surprised and not surprised by that.
Is Laufey a jazz artist, or a bona fide pop star? The qualified answer, with asterisks to spare, is “both.” And that’s part of the fun in discussing everyone’s favorite Icelandic-Asian-American singer ...
All it might take is a second and a half of hearing her sing to make your spine tingle or your heart drop. Opera singers, jazz vocalists, writers and Vaughan’s biographer share their favorites. By ...
Today Dave met with teenage jazz-singing phenom Nikki Yanofsky. She joins Seattle Symphony Principal Pops Conducter Marvin Hamlisch to celebrate the era of swing September 18-21. Nikki, 14, has ...
Vocalist Michael Mayo reached new heights through his latest album Fly, with the project earning the crooner his first Grammy ...
Based in Portland, singer, artist, and America’s Got Talent star Jimmie Herrod makes his living performing solo shows, ...
Mention the name “Aliquo” to someone in the Alle-Kiski Valley or Pittsburgh, and you’ll likely find yourself in a ...
Sheila Jordan, the jazz vocalist who tugged at the boundaries of music whether she was scat-singing or freshly interpreting songs by Kurt Weill, Rodgers and Hart, or Jimmy Webb, died on Monday. She ...