Ever since I heard the Argentine saxophonist Gato Barbieri back in the Seventies, I’ve been fascinated by musicians from ...
Friday, Oct. 24 Hey Day Happy Hour: 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24-25, at Hey Nonny, 10 S. Vail Ave., Arlington Heights.
Across a storied city like San Francisco, arguably no neighborhood boasts more lore than North Beach. From the scantily clad to the poetic savants, the area is rich with spectacle and intrigue, with ...
THIS is solo piano at its most intense, inventive and beautiful. Aruan Ortiz, born in Santiago de Cuba in 1973, pays particular homage to the Martinican poet and Communist member of the French ...
LENOX — The first chapter of John Gennari’s book “The Jazz Barn” opens with a pilgrimage through the woods — a trio of kitchen workers searching in the night for a musical oasis in the Lenox hills.
Let the record state: Jazz music has not always been a gray-haired endeavor. Somewhere on the other side of the U.S. moon landing, a “swinging” tune denoted young, vivacious couples doing their ...
Baroque Europe and modern-day Hong Kong are contextually and geographically worlds apart. Still, Hongkonger Karen Yeung has been promoting early Western music in the city with her biannual music ...
A prank known as “Happy Corner” that originated in China has made its way to Malaysia, triggering student suspensions in schools determined to show they are getting tough on bullying after a string of ...
Patrick Bartley considers both jazz and Japanese his second languages. The American saxophonist, known for bright bebop solos over J-pop tunes, also believes fluency doesn’t require being native. “You ...
McDonald's is continuing the rollout of its BTS-inspired Happy Meals with a new edition that's available for a limited time as of Sept. 23. In August, McDonald's announced that it would be launching ...
As the guitar-strumming will-o'-the-wisp Maria von Trapp, Julie Andrews taught us a few of her favorite things. And six decades on, "The Sound of Music" is still one of ours. Based on Rodgers and ...
Steve Alcala, a music teacher and trumpet player, fell in love with Latin Jazz, but very little sheet music was available to help his students learn. So he started a sheet music publishing company.