We continue our conversation with Mary Halvorson (Part One here) with a focus on her compositional process, the origin of…
Sir Jeffrey Tate, the first principal conductor of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, once noted that "the most perfect…
Our conversation with Bill Summers (part one available here) continues with a further discussion on the Headhunters, how percussionists are…
The obsession of many in the music industry to categorize art frequently overlooks the shared tree upon which so many…
We continue our conversation with Stuart Bogie on The Bogie Band featuring Joe Russo's The Prophets in the City (Royal…
The big band concept has existed for well over a century. Throughout that time, dance has always been an essential…
For the second part of our conversation with Michael Leonhart on The Normyn Suites (Sunnyside, 2022), we discuss Elvis Costello,…
Sometimes the most complicated things in life are those that appear deceptively simple. We all understand, at a surface level,…
We continue our conversation with Jim Anderson (click here for our prior discussion with him and Ulrike Schwarz on immersive…
On the interplay between music and technology, discussions generally emphasize two areas. The first is the emergence of new instruments,…