Piano, bass, and drums took center stage on March 21 at Symphony Hall, encircled by the traditional string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After a brief ...

Live musical performances are usually freer than those recorded in studios, for reasons having to do with the peculiar psychology of many performing artists. In public, where what’s played is what’s ...

Pairing the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and John Coltrane may at first seem odd. After all, they were born 241 years apart on different continents. They worked in dissimilar music fields: Bach is a ...

Most jazz lovers know that in 1965 the great saxophonist John Coltrane (1926-1967) played the Penthouse, the erstwhile Pioneer Square jazz club where he recorded the important transitional album “Live ...

Despite being John Coltrane‘s most celebrated album, and one of the most beloved jazz albums of all time, A Love Supreme wasn’t a record that the saxophonist touched on much in the live setting. Up ...

Saxophonist David Murray Is the Featured Soloist on Original Arrangement of the Work by Miguel de la Cerna and El’Zabar Sunday, February 25, 2024, 4 pm, First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica The ...

During the 1950s, Mal Waldron sat down to write the song “Soul Eyes.” The song eventually found its way into the recording studio that same decade as part of the album Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 ...