Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

The city that produced such current and former musical pioneers as composer Philip Glass, left-handed pianist Leon Fleischer, ...

The guiding principles of classical and jazz music are seemingly at odds — the former favors composition, the latter improvisation — but they co-exist in the repertoire of New York-based pianist Gregg ...

Like the Modern Jazz Quartet, the foursome on this new release folds visions of great classical music into a mainstream jazz setting. Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet has always provided special holiday ...

This weekend at the Adrienne Arsht Center, Andrew Grams stood before the New World Symphony as the guest ensemble with the ...

Classical music lovers, meet cool jazz. How about jazz fans listening to the likes of Maurice Ravel or Samuel Barber? How about reframing both perspectives at a fresh and inventive January recital?

Viewed in this way, we can see the blues as a quest for existential answers to questions that have always been, and always will be—they have no beginning, and no end. In my article about Harmony and ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Tigertown Classic Jazz delivered the penultimate performance for the Princeton Public Library ...

Cancel your Friday-night plans — there’s jazz in town. “Kat Ellis Quartet,” playing classical jazz music, will perform 6:30 p.m. Friday at The Collective Snowmass as part of the Jazz Supper Club. The ...

For Josh Duffee, it all started with cartoons. His first exposure to classic jazz music came as a member of the Bix Youth Jazz Band during the Bix Beiderbecke ...

I keep hearing the same thing from all musical corners: The last two summers were busy, yes, but summer 2023 is busy-busy. This may be the first festival season since the pandemic that we’ve been ...