Composer Nils Vigeland has had a deep relationship with the piano throughout his career. In 2013 he retired as Chair of the Composition Department at Manhattan School of Music after having taught ther...
04.25.2025 Blogcritics.orgFollowing the release of his first composition “The Lovers and Destroyers” with Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem in fall 2024, the internationally renowned guitarist Caspar Brötzmann and his band Massaker ...
04.22.2025 Grande-rock.comAmerica is renowned for jazz, musicals, and Hollywood films, yet its classical music tradition is equally vibrant, original, and deeply moving. Drawing from the majestic Appalachian Mountains, the bus...
04.23.2025 Ba-bamail.comAdventurous, full of a certain uncloying positivity, Reach takes you on a rollercoaster of a jazz rock and forward facing into the deep blue yonder ride. Full of future facing chunky grooves, a contem...
04.21.2025 Marlbank.netTen years ago this month, in 2003, northeastern North America experienced the second most widespread blackout in history. That August evening, toward the end of my three-hour commute home on foot, a nearly full moon rose over the soft brownstone canyons of Park Slope, Brooklyn. Candlelit stoops hosted small, spontaneous parties serenaded by banjoes, guitars and accordions. Without the pollution of a million street and building lights the visibility of the night sky was exceptional. The 2003 blac...
04.25.2025 Thenatureofcities.comWith his concept of musical transcendentalism, Charles Ives paved the way for a century of experimentation in multiple modes of musical expression. In Visionaries and Eccentrics: Ives’ Problem Childre...
04.22.2025 Allaboutjazz.comIn 2025, PMP is proud to release Trillium X , a sixth opera by Anthony Braxton , on the occasion of his 80th birthday. A limited deluxe 8-CD box set including both, a live recording of the world premi...
04.21.2025 Allaboutjazz.comMiles Okazaki and Bill Frisell The Miller Theater, Columbia University New York City April 15, 2025 When musicians collaborate for the first time, the setlist usually settles around shared music they ...
04.21.2025 Allaboutjazz.comDouglas H. Banker passed away on April 16th from complications of pneumonia. He was the loving husband of 65 years to Sarah Griffin Banker, father of Alexander (Skippy), Jean (John Miottel) and Abigai...
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