Last month, Andre 3000 made one of the most notable left turns in modern music history. Three Stacks, as he's been known in the rap world for the last couple of decades, was part of the Atlanta ...

Around halfway through a set during his Blue Note residency last Thursday, André 3000 took some time to survey his tools. The musician crouched over a rug arrayed with around a dozen varieties of the ...

Avant-garde musicians, harpist Stephan Haluska, who champions cutting edge music as director of Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project, and flutist Robert Dick, have been playing together since 2022, ...

This is FRESH AIR. Our jazz critic Kevin Whitehead has a review of a reissue by flute player Sam Most, who died in 2013. Kevin says Most was never very well-known, despite his influence on other jazz ...

Flutist Julin Cheung uses his talents to influence a new generation. On this episode of On Stage at Curtis, flutist Julin Cheung uses his talents to influence a new generation, drawing others into his ...

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Last week, the news that André 3000 would be releasing an album of instrumental flute jams was greeted with enough head-scratching to draw blood. But don’t tell that to Jake Fridkis, who plays ...

The Washington Women in Jazz Festival was born out of the necessity for more feminine representation in the genre. The festival’s founder, Amy K. Bormet, is a vocalist and pianist who noticed the lack ...