Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

OPINION: Vince Guaraldi's introspective jazz soundtrack to "A Charlie Brown Christmas" helped make the show a holiday classic ...

In the classical music, jazz and dance world, the year 2022 may be remembered as the year Columbus-area arts organizations made a full pivot back to normal. In contrast to 2020 and 2021 — years during ...

I keep hearing the same thing from all musical corners: The last two summers were busy, yes, but summer 2023 is busy-busy. This may be the first festival season since the pandemic that we’ve been ...

A holiday album that cuts through seasonal glut, a late collaboration by Jim McNeely and Helmut Lachenmann’s string quartets ...

“Musicians like Mozart and Beethoven could make up an extended riff at the drop of a hat,” said Darrell Grant in a phone call from his office at Portland State University, where he is the professor of ...

Viewed in this way, we can see the blues as a quest for existential answers to questions that have always been, and always will be—they have no beginning, and no end. In my article about Harmony and ...

Nora Holt was a pioneer of Chicago’s Black classical music scene. A friend of Josephine Baker, she later became a blues singer in Parisian nightclubs. A 1934 portrait of Nora Holt by Carl Van ...

In early November, a trio of top-notch classically trained musicians took to the stage in front of a full house. With William Ransom accompanying on piano, tenor Timothy Miller and soprano Bethany ...

The "Neapolitan 6th" chord (N6) is another sonority whose definition is based on the triad that it makes, which is a vertical perspective that glosses over its actual horizontal function. It is ...

I know, I know — summertime is for staying out ’til 2 a.m., losing your mind to ear-splitting bass and dancing for hours. Not exactly the realm of classical music or jazz. But there’s balance in all ...

And it seems that in 2025 there was not only an abundance of new jazz releases, but the quality bar was raised again, with ...