The second day (check out day one here) of the 2023 Newport Jazz Festival, Saturday, August 5, 2023, can be…
Great artists have honed a sound that is identifiable regardless of the environment surrounding them. The truly brilliant, however, are…
Throughout the ages, some of the greatest composers have gifted to the world pieces not meant for their time. Often…
From the 1940s through the 1960s, even into part of the 1970s, instrumental music reigned supreme in the popular consciousness.…
Far too often, people perceive music as a solely auditory experience, something heard but which does not affect the rest…
Joann Wolfgang von Goethe once remarked, "Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.” But the philosopher is hardly the…
Artists have long written compositions that express emotional depths possible only through music. These songs can bring the listener to…
The love song is one of the oldest and most primal forms of musical expression, dating back to ancient Greece,…
John Coltrane once noted he would “like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words……
Miles Davis once remarked, “It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating, they have to be about change.” This emphasis on…
