“Jazz has absorbed whatever was around from the very beginning,” the writer Francis Davis told Wen Stephenson in a 1996 ...

Piano performance and Artist Diploma student Korkmaz Saglam will compete in the Seventeenth Van Cliburn International Piano ...

In local arts news this week, we explore Classical IPR’s new podcast through the lens of humor. And then there’s a murder, a ...

Ellington recorded “Black and Tan Fantasy” several times in 1927 with a small orchestra, showing off the ensemble’s tightly honed, potently expressive sound. Moran converted it into a solo, which he ...

Dash Wilson, a junior at Andrew High School in Tinley Park, earned first place in the 2025 Illinois Young Composer contest.

Damian Goggans' performances of "14 Etudes on The Music of Black Americans" connect audiences to the rich history of ...

A team of researchers and artists in Australia has grown cells from a dead composer's brain to create new "music" which can ...

On her sixth album, Money and Power (due out April 18), the East Texas musician wants to shine a ... inspiring her to play “a form of protest music,” she recently told The Arts Fuse.

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and one of its artists left the musician “shocked” by ... vice president who simply wanted to enjoy music with his wife for a night.

Amid an overhaul at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a musician is calling out the interim president for an "unprofessional and rude" email exchange. Guitarist and composer ...

We thus became engrossed in the world of Indian classical music that our father had grown up with, along with our own contemporary choices. You have to constantly absorb. Ayaan: To be a musician ...

Assessed by relevance, breakthrough success, ability to capture the zeitgeist as well as the impact they've made on the music industry at large, these are the musicians who pushed the cultural ...