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Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyBuilding on a long track record of scholarship and interpretive artistry focused on the great Mary Lou Williams, vibraphonist and composer Cecilia Smith unveils “The Mary Lou Williams Resurgence Project Volume One: Small Ensemble Repertoire.” Through countless hours of immersion in the Williams archive at the Institute for Jazz Studies, … Continue reading

Or Bareket, the multi-dimensional Israeli jazz bassist and composer, will appear at the Black Cat in San Francisco, May 11-13, 2023.

The author and columnist shares insights about rising interest rates and mortgage paydown, crypto and meme stocks, and his own financial journey and portfolio.

TCS numbers fell short of market expectations and broker commentary is largely neutral to bearish

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this April with a full slate of nightly performances! See who is performing and learn how to purchase tickets!

Grammy Award winning jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. Mehldau’s most consistent output over the years has taken place in the trio format. Starting in 1996, his group released a series of five records on Warner Bros. entitled The Art of the Trio (recently re-packaged and re-released as a 5-Disc box set by Nonesuch in late 2011). During that same period, Mehldau also released a solo piano recording entitled Elegiac Cycle, and a record called...

In this excerpt from Brad Mehldau's memoir ‘Formation: Building a Personal Canon, Part 1,' the pianist talks about learning from jazz legends Barry Harris and Lou Donaldson.

With the DNE facility no longer available, retail traders cannot afford to wait till the last minute to square off their open positions in single stock options.

Since Grant Gordy's 2010 self-titled debut album, he has used bluegrass as a foundation while stretching out far beyond the genre’s confines to find his voice as an improviser, composer, and arranger.

In 2021, he graduated from the Klaus Academy of Music in the Netherlands with a master's degree in jazz performance. (The thesis direction is the basic education of jazz in China); in his early years, he studied with Liu Yao, Gu Zhongshan, Xia Jia and other domestic jazz masters.