Once notation became formal practice in Europe, composers would experiment with folkloric bells for special effect. Familiar...
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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...
One of my favorite little-known bossa nova albums was recorded by a British big-band leader born in...
In The Wall Street Journal this week, I interviewed cartoonist George Booth for my “House Call” column in the Mansion...
