Vocalist and songwriter Susan Abod has been working hard on her upcoming Anita O’Day tribute concert, but her commitment goes only so far. [...]

Vocalists César Bauvallet and Jackie Zamora want to be clear about this: They will not be held responsible for any child conceived on [...]

If voices could be bought and sold the way that, say, violins are, Jane Monheit’s instrument would likely command a pretty price. Few [...]

Using a newfangled contraption, the electric guitar, and a mesmerizing facility for improvisation, Charlie Christian, born in 1916, helped transform the role of [...]

Vocalist Patti Littlefield can’t recall the song, but she knows who was singing on her mother’s radio. “The first song I remember hearing [...]

Composer/educator/musician Frank Leto and his wife, dancer Pilar Leto, will get their house back this weekend. For weeks, it’s been the staging site [...]

On 6 Times around the Sun, hubkaphonist Mark Weber presents an abundant collection of strange and wonderful music, teaming up with nine adventurous [...]

Even if you loathe the romantic treacle churned out by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, you’ve got to admit that the cat could write memorable [...]

It’s such a wacky idea: orchestrating Charlie Parker solos. Look, here’s the guy who reinvented the jazz saxophone, playing with unthinkable speed and [...]

Sometimes you don’t know what you’re missing until it comes along. For three singer/songwriters—Mandy Buchanan, from Red River, N.M.; Yvonne Perea, her sometime [...]