Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali's slow tempos worked wonders with Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, but bogged down Sibelius' ...

Where the latter was a high-spirited and witty take on a game of chess, Miracle in the Gorbals mixes Glaswegian social realism with religious symbolism. It struck a chord with the wartime public, and ...

The double-bill show, Ghosts and Carcass premieres in in Fremantle on October 23 and 24, 2025. Music, dance and story come ...

From the Harlem Renaissance to modern improvisation, jazz has always been connected to wellness and self-expression.

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

Jack DeJohnette, one of the most daring and dynamic jazz drummers of the last 60 years, with a loose-limbed yet exacting beat ...

Pharoah Sanders’ 1977 release Izipho Zam (My Gifts) on the Strata-East label is a fascinating listen. Widely regarded as a landmark in the evolution of free jazz, it continues to grow on me—and that, ...

Let the record state: Jazz music has not always been a gray-haired endeavor. Somewhere on the other side of the U.S. moon landing, a “swinging” tune denoted young, vivacious couples doing their ...

Jazzmandu Festival 2025 was nearly cancelled, but the organisers decided to go ahead with it anyway, believing in the power of jazz for healing and restoration. The Surya Nepal Jazzmandu is back in ...

The hottest tunes of a century ago will heat up again as the Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra (SSJO) opens its new season ...

Jazz may have originated in New Orleans in the late 19th century, but New York City is where it expanded—physically, sonically, and culturally. By the 1920s, Harlem had become a national hub, where ...

The Sousa Band saxophone section who performed for the ensemble’s 1923-1924 tour, which included the Willow Grove performances of Sousa’s ‘An Application of Jazz Tunes.’ Frederick Bayers and James Son ...