In Present Music‘s opening concert, flutist extraordinaire Claire Chase will take the audience for a cosmic journey with ...

Two albums of forward-thinking electronic ambient music, from Canadian pipe organist Sarah Davachi and Caribbean-Belgian harpist Nala Sinephro ...

Oscar-winning movie composer Elmer Bernstein scored classics including The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Ghostbusters ...

By the time Al Stewart finally achieved his commercial breakthrough with 1976’s “Year of the Cat,” it was the culmination of ...

Ever since the '60s, Joan Baez has delivered a message with her music, but she was never going to be a two-chord folkie with ...

After a long week at work, a sophisticated evening with jazz is one of the best ways to wind down. Having been around for ...

Honoring the legacy of John Heiss, this weeklong festival features residencies with guest artists Raven Chacon and John Musto, a barn dance with Alex Cummings and Adah Hetko, a four-night run of John ...

Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass ...

He’s like those jazzmen in Kansas City in the ’40s who got so bored playing six identical sets of standard tunes every night that they invented bebop jazz, where the whole tune is one step to ...

Jazz is two things at once: it’s the oldest kind of pop music, and the youngest kind of “trad” music, alongside things like classical and opera. The best jazz albums, therefore, often sound ...