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 ...

Classical music has its own version of the tritone sub, which, of course, predated the jazz version. It results from the outer voices (usually soprano and bass) moving in contrary motion into the ...

Renowned classical-soul pianist and composer Alexis Ffrench has announced the release of his latest album, Classical Soul Vol. 1, arriving next Friday, September 27, via Sony Classical - pre-order is ...

We don’t know who discovered the 'tritone sub'... this harmonic device provides colorful harmonic variation without disturbing the overall form or flow of the piece... it also provides the improviser ...

The city that produced such current and former musical pioneers as composer Philip Glass, left-handed pianist Leon Fleischer, ragtime impresario Eubie Blake, and singer Billie Holliday is a city that ...

Composer and pianist Valerie Capers is at home in both the classical and jazz worlds. In her suite Portraits in Jazz, Capers ...

Saxophonists Lou Donaldson and organist Jack McDuff, both born in 1926, championed memorable melodies and grooves rooted in ...

Les McCann, a pianist and vocalist who helped popularize the soul jazz genre and whose music was sampled in hip-hop songs by artists like A Tribe Called Quest and Dr. Dre, has died, The New York Times ...

Argerich has cancelled a number of concerts due to ill health in recent years – including this one, which was initially scheduled for 12 January 2024 – yet there was no whisper of frailty as she ...