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The 81-year-old banjo player and singer from Billerica is as reticent as he is revered.

To celebrate Mardi Gras and Black History Month, this edition of Brass, Reeds, and Percussion features remastered Dixieland recordings from the 1920s and 1930s. Robert Parker, an Australian sound engineer, has processed and remastered a number of old 78-rpm recordings so that they almost sound like modern recordings. Regardless, the fidelity is tremendously improved. We will have a number of selections from his compact disc entitled \“New Orleans: Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo.\” Today, yo...

One upcoming NYC jazz festival worth immediate attention is the first annual Out Music Festival, now through February 4.

The news of the death of Jacques Delors just after Christmas sparked my memories of that outstanding European.

Nikki Iles affirmed her flawless ear, Gretchen Parlato and Lionel Loueke finished each other’s sentences and Tyshawn Sorey rewrote standard-song interpretation

The lifelike sculptures by the late New Jersey-based artist J. Seward Johnson will be arranged on a concrete platform on the west side of the Palladium performing arts center.

Xero Slingsby made smart, punchy and confrontational music, drawing influence from post punk and free jazz with an anarchic, political edge.

Go inside this couple's earthy, organic wedding at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, where a farm-to-table menu delighted the newlyweds and guests alike. Get all of the details here.

The Beninese singer fled a dictatorship to become a global star. As she plays the Albert Hall for the London Jazz Festival she talks to Clive Davis

The Beninese singer fled a dictatorship to become a global star. As she plays the Albert Hall for the London Jazz Festival she talks to Clive Davis