By
Dave Sumner
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July 21, 2021
In 2015, Japanese violinist Tomoko Omura decided to arrange 10 well-known Japanese songs—a mix of old folk songs and popular modern tunes—for performance as jazz pieces on an album she would title Roots
Violinist Nicola Benedetti on what classical music could learn from jazz gigs
24 June 2021, 13:01
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Craig Gibson
Violinist Nicola Benedetti speaks to Classic FM about rejecting the “sewed up and perfect” ideal of what a classical concert should be, and why the live music experience should offer more than just a live
The 2020 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll : NPR
Briene Lermitte/Courtesy of the artist
Briene Lermitte/Courtesy of the artist
Below are the results of NPR Music’s 8th Annual Jazz Critics Poll (my 15th, going back to the poll’s beginnings in the Village Voice). These are the jazz albums that lit up a dark, unsettling year. Maria Schneider’s Data Lords