99-year-old Millie Baran collaborates with Albert Marquès — composer, pianist and New York City public school teacher — as part of a musical project to amplify marginalized voices. Holocaust survivor ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Emerging in the late 1940s and early 1950s amid a postwar cultural ferment, avant‑garde jazz carved out a distinct identity by daringly shattering conventional jazz dogma. While bebop and hard bop had ...

It’s not for everyone. But for the people for whom it is, there’s not a better spot than Columbia. “The city kind of punches above its weight, in that respect,” said Hollis Beach, a devotee of the ...

Honoring the legacy of radical improvisation while pushing its boundaries, Billie Davies fuses raw American avant-garde grit with intellectual European free-jazz experimentation. Cobra Basement ...

Since moving to Bigfork from New Jersey in 2023, Freeman has established the lone outpost in the West for the genre-bending ...

A first-time music festival by the owner of the music venue Constellation is coming to the Bricktown and Avondale neighborhoods this September. Sound & Gravity, created by Mike Reed, will be Sept.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – For a lot of music fans, The Bad Plus came to public attention as a piano-based trio, covering the likes of Nirvana, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Rush and Blondie alongside their own ...

His giant footprint in pop music and pop culture often overshadows the fact that he was an incredibly gifted singer who came of age in the era of the great song stylists of the jazz era and brought ...