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After his First Symphony flopped, the Russian composer made ends meet with a short-lived and little-known career in vaudeville and the circus.

The avant-garde pianist performed original motifs and a free duet with Marian McPartland in 2000.

Baker's legacy may be debated, but his artistry shouldn't be. On the eve of a new biopic starring Ethan Hawke, here's an introduction to the trumpeter and vocalist.

Cheadle takes on the jazz great in an uneven but inventive film that struggles at times to bring clarity to its idea of Davis but experiments intriguingly with past, present, fact and fiction.

The show explores the life of the jazz saxophonist, with Lawrence Brownlee in the title role. It opens this weekend at the Apollo Theater in New York — a stage where Parker played.

Known for his ever-present black fedora, Barbieri could never be pinned down. "My music is the same. I play Gato," Barbieri once told The Tavis Smiley Show.

For students in the program, "music becomes this vehicle for experiencing and envisioning themselves with lives filled with possibility," says Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop.

Russian musician Sergei Roldugin's name has emerged in the massive data leak known as the Panama Papers. He is allegedly at the center of his country's offshore banking activities.

A new choral work is on tour, based on the life of Tyler Clementi — the college freshman who committed suicide in 2010, after his roommate secretly filmed him in bed with another man.

The respected vocalist joins Marian McPartland for a tribute to songwriter Hoagy Carmichael.