Arriving for the sound check before her first appearance at the Women’s Voices Concerts a few weeks back, vocalist Susan Abod wasn’t sure [...]

Since returning to New Mexico a few years ago—and packing a résumé that includes performances with Diahann Carroll, Al Greene and Clark Terry—drummer [...]

Though rooted in two different cultures, Iraqi oudist Rahim AlHaj and Indian sarodist Ustad Amjad Ali Khan have each flourished under the same [...]

At the 2008 edition of the Women’s Voices concerts, a perennial favorite presented by the New Mexico Jazz Workshop, what was happening offstage [...]

Blending simple, beautiful African melodies with forward-looking harmonies, a deep groove and an unusually percussive repertoire of vocalizations, guitarist Lionel Loueke has quickly [...]

“This is the essence of magic, which does not create, but summons.” So said Franz Kafka in his diary, and so it might [...]

A few weeks back, Tom Guralnick, executive director and resident visionary at the Outpost, was onstage introducing David Sánchez when he mentioned that [...]

From the opening notes on his latest CD—the Grammy-nominated Cultural Survival —saxophonist David Sánchez captures your attention with a sound as compact, muscular [...]

James Brown made his mark as the Godfather of Funk, but he apparently led a second and secret life as a composer of [...]

It doesn’t matter whether you’re a mohel or just a plain mensch, a goy or a Hasid, or even if you can’t tell [...]