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Mark AndrewEdward Gorey's classic children's book The Gashlycrumb Tinies inspired Carla Kihlstedt to create a song cycle for singing violinist and chamber orchestra. She's about to perform that piece, 26 Little Deaths, twice in the Philadelphia area, courtesy of Network for New Music. -
Philippe Levy-StabA dozen distinguished artists have just joined the second cohort of Jazz Legacies Fellows, according to an announcement by The Mellon Foundation and the Jazz Foundation of America.
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The latest single from Joshua Redman's new Blue Note album, 'where are we,' is a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia," featuring vocals by Gabrielle Cavassa. -
New albums by Jon Batiste and Louis Cato arrive with high expectations. Both — as their experience leading led the band at Stephen Colbert's The Late Show has proved — are stellar live performers. -
Watch the Steven Feifke Big Band perform "Patience's Promise," featuring Benny Benack III -
Drummer, composer and bandleader Billy Hart has been named a 2023 recipient of the Living Legacy Jazz Award, Presented by PECO. -
Drummer Johnathan Blake has always carried a musical torch for his father, the late violinist John Blake, Jr. With a forthcoming Blue Note album, 'Passage,' he pays his most direct homage yet. -
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Recorded in 2018 but only now seeing daylight, it's the prolific drummer's first release in years at the head of his expressive and enduring Fellowship Band. -
A concert pianist who bridged classical music, jazz and pop for more than 65 years, notably in his legendary tenure as conductor of the Philly Pops, Peter Nero died on Thursday in Eustis, Fla. He was 89. -
The composer, in a new collaboration with the Grammy-winning choir The Crossing, uses the words of Jeff Bezos and William Penn to explore connections among farming, colonialism and capitalism. -
In the mid-2000s, Ambrose Akinmusire was a student at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance. He returns to the organization, now known as the Hancock Institute, as Artistic Director.
