With her stirring vocals and empathetic songwriting, Lori McKenna brings family relationships, roots and branches to varied life.
There’s nary a whiff of mustiness to the revitalized Chamber Music Northwest, which has grown more diverse while not abandoning tradition.
Bobby Sanabria’s Multiverse Big Band brilliantly reworks Leonard Bernstein’s classic score into a two-CD, 20-track blend of Afro-Latin rhythms.
New songs by clarinetist Dr. Michael White are grounded in the elements that define a distinct New Orleans style.
In her latest album, jazz vocalist Cyrille Aimée uses rhythm and sonics to recast familiar tunes in her own image.
Kamasi Washington has been heralded as the savior of jazz, but his latest album casts him as a creative ambassador reaching across genres and styles.
To celebrate Debussy, who died 100 years ago, Warner Classics has released a 10-CD trove of historical performances from artists who were part of a distinct, now extinct, Gallic musical tradition.
The recording of a 1963 session with the saxophonist was purged from ABC Records’ storage in the 1970s—luckily, a second copy survived.
Stranger Days, the quartet led by trumpeter Adam O’Farrill, blends the rustic and modern on an album inspired by large Yucatecan ensembles.
John Zorn’s ‘The Book Beriah’ brings together many groups across 11 CDs in a work that serves as the culmination of a 25-year project.
Even with its departing music director, Leonard Slatkin, absent, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (with Peter Oundjian stepping in) offered spirited performances of Roshanne Etezady’s ‘Diamond Rain’ and Christopher Cerrone’s ‘Breaks and Breaks.’
On their new albums, composers Jessica Krash, Harold Meltzer and Mark Applebaum create novel hybrids.
Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz musician Henry Threadgill continues to extend his range with a new group and unconventional arrangements.
Celebrating the composer’s centenary this summer, a 26-CD, three-DVD set offers the chance to appraise Leonard Bernstein’s lasting impact on music.
The indie-folk artist turns to his past and the things that buoyed him in difficult times: familiar television characters and easy listening music
Composers with connections to both the U.S. and China have found a distinct place in contemporary music, highlighted by a recent concert by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.
Her latest album is full of surprises, drawing from the late ’60s/early ’70s era of Los Angeles roots pop.
The cult favorite’s new album is a surprising tribute that reinvents songs from the 1970s darling in her own style.
In an era often belittled by jazz fans, guitarist Grant Green spearheaded a movement that expanded hits in innovative ways.
A boxed set shows how the musician’s elegant swing transformed the jazz keyboard from an instrument of battle into a conversational member of small groups and big-band rhythm sections.
The guitarist-composer places his affinity for improvisational jazz in the context of electronic exploration.
John Coltrane would leave Miles Davis’s group after its 1960 European tour, but not before emerging as a jazz superpower.
The singer returns with his first solo studio album in 13 years.
Dafnis Prieto revisits many of his works, this time with a big band of his own.
The annual Big Ears Festival again featured artists eager to experiment, including a slate of talented electronic artists who pushed the genre in new directions.