From those who elevated the instrument from a mere time-keeping role, to versatile pathfinders and visionary composers,...
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One evening in May of 2017, at home in rural Warwick, N.Y., guitarist Frank Vignola, then 51,...
Once notation became formal practice in Europe, composers would experiment with folkloric bells for special effect. Familiar...
Twenty-odd years ago, Gerald Cyrus wandered into a Monday night jam session at St. Nick’s Pub, a jazz club in...
George Shearing became identified, even in the headlines of some of his 2011 obituaries, as the composer...
In Ron Carter’s spacious 10th-floor apartment on New York’s Upper West Side, there’s a plaque hanging in...
