Grammy Award-winning Panamanian jazz pianist Danilo Pérez, also composer, educator, and social activist, has had a close personal and professional relationship with Wayne Shorter and reflects on his memories with the late great.
As Wynton Marsalis approaches his 61st birthday, his career as an ambassador and curator of jazz history, its seminal importance and influence as an original American art form, has been
A perfect match was found between the intimate setting of The Cabot theater, in Beverly, MA., and the distinctive mellow sound of the folk-rock band, America, on their 50th Anniversary
As one of the premier jazz festivals in the world, the Montreal Jazz Festival has taken the impact of their festival’s cancellation this year and turned it into a musical
Boston Lyric Opera has once again successfully adapted and tackled politically and socially topical subjects in “Fellow Travelers”, an opera by Gregory Spears with Libretto by Greg Pierce. In a
Little Feat guitarist Paul Barrere passed away today at age 71(10/26/19) from liver disease after recently announcing he would not be taken part in the band’s current fall tour. Barrere
The 2019/2020 Boston Lyric Opera’s opener Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci again brings an inventive staging and design to their products that promote a carnival-like atmosphere, that invigorates the storyline and engages
When Bob Marley, the legendary reggae musician and spiritual leader of this Caribbean-based music, hit the UK and US charts in the 1970s, there was a wave of inspired Jamaican
As you look at all the seminal legends and stars of jazz that have performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, now celebrating its 65th anniversary, a phenomenal list of artists
The opening performance(May 5th, at Harvard University’s Ray Lavietes Pavilion) of the Boston Lyric Opera’s original adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dark, dystopian novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale” had by coincidence found
