THRIO will be performing an album release show at Missy Lane’s Assembly Room in downtown Durham on March 24. They stopped by the WUNC studio recently to chat with music reporter Brian Burns about the ...
The Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming season features nine concerts with works by everyone from Gershwin and Rimsky-Korsakov to Wynton Marsalis and Anna Clyne.
New Orleans hosts a new bluegrass festival, a festival devoted to a beloved jazz banjoist and much more this week.
The trumpeter’s powerful suite got headline billing but the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra nearly stole the show ...
Born in 1909, around the same time that trad jazz was emerging in New Orleans, Barker lived with his parents, Moses Barker ...
"The Blues Symphony is a seven-movement work that gives a symphonic identity to the form and feeling of the blues. It utilizes regional and stylistic particulars of the idiom’s language and form to ...
Wynton Marsalis is a great man, but his Fourth, “The Jungle”, is no masterpiece, not even a symphony – a dance suite, maybe, with enough bold textures to recall wandering attentions. We needed less of ...
Award-winning musician Wynton Marsalis tells Katty Kay how growing up surrounded by music shaped his own journey with jazz.
(Recording) is kind of like your business card now, for an orchestra,” explains DSO President and CEO Erik Ronmark, a ...
“I keep moving all the time,” jazz singer and lyricist Kurt Elling said last week.
Marsalis wrote Blues Symphony in 2009, and it’s now the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s first album release under the leadership ...
Recorded at Orchestra Hall in December 2023, the album marks a milestone for the DSO.