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Renowned Auburn bassist Peter Mack will perform in the area twice this weekend with a new quartet of big musical names.

The jazz world is heralding A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle, a document of John Coltrane performing his masterpiece in 1965. But the story is bigger than Trane: It involves his friend who recorded it, Joe Brazil — and a dogged archivist trying to bring his story into the light.

Night Train | October 25-28, 2021

July 1, 2021 The latest alarming coronavirus variant is exploiting low global vaccination rates and a rush to ease pandemic restrictions, adding new urgency to the drive... July 1, 2021 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Sixty years after acing astronaut tests but barred because she was a woman, Wally Funk will rocket into space... July 1, 20211 WATERBURY – Police arrested three people after raiding a home on Ayers Street Wednesday afternoon and seized close to 2 pounds of marijuana, cocaine,... J...

Oh and Sorey arent mere collaborators or accompanists; theyre educators and composers in their own rights. Of Soreys drumming, Iyer cites a "life-sustaining kind of magic." And of Ohs bass playing, "Her awareness of and relation to pulse, its like micro-detail," he says. Those qualities and more can be found on  Uneasy, the trios first studio record, which drops April 9 on ECM Records. The album is a mix of topical material "Children of Flint" with Iyer originals ("Combat Breathing") and stand...

Sammy Nestico, an omnipresence in big band arranging and composing, best known for a close association with the Count Basie Orchestra, died of natural

New Music Monday for December 28, 2020        Drummer/composer Jeff Cosgrove uses his sixth album as a leader to celebrate the music of former collaborator, bassist/composer William Parker. Cosgrove released two critically-acclaimed recordings featuring Parker and long-standing collaborator Matthew Shipp. On “History Gets Ahead of the Story,” Cosgrove offers a unique take on Parker’s long-standing quartet repertoire by rearranging it for the classic organ trio. Saxophon...