Repertoire Rebellion: What By Vincent Stephens May 27, 2005 View read count Even when pop/rock would-be torch singers, like Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Barry Manilow, Rod Stewart etc. fail to ...

Swing Strings: Five Jazz Violinists The violin was partly responsible for bringing non-Americans to jazz. In the very early days of the genre, it was a European, Stephane Grappelli, who really ...

Since emerging onto Philadelphia's jazz scene, vocalist Joanna Pascale has established herself as a compelling and skilled vocalist. At just 24 years old Joanna already has a working repertoire of ...

Inspired by their love of the jazz and swing music of almost a century ago, Lake Street Dive singer Rachael Price and guitarist Vilray (who goes by that single name) began performing as a duo in 2015.

DUKE ELLINGTON, “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” A prodigious composer and talented pianist, Ellington helped push jazz out of clubs and into the wider pantheon of ...

The tracks are a musical adaptation of Sergei Prokofiev's original work made in 1936. Prokofiev's crafted a symphonic fairytale that made the classical repertoire fascinating for children. NEJE ...

In everything he composed in his too-brief career, George Gershwin never strayed far from jazz. He loved the new, audacious music that he heard in Harlem nightclubs in the 1920s, and it is the ...

No other orchestra in America looks, sounds or acts quite like Orbert Davis’ Chicago Jazz Philharmonic. For though various bands play Third Stream repertoire — a term that loosely refers to ...

The 56th festival, from July 1 to 16 in the idyllic town on Lake Geneva, is turning to old friends and some new faces from the world of pop, rap, jazz and rock to get the show back up and running.