‘We believe that access to music is a fundamental children’s rights issue’

At 5.30 in the evening outside a Community Resource Centre on the edge of Longford town 17 Roma teenagers are gathered in the open air as they take turns playing…

Jazz Review: A Crucial Charles Mingus Concert Finally Gets Its Due

The newly restored version illuminates Mingus’s vision of the living history of jazz.Photograph from Ullstein Bild / Getty Atlantic Records’ release last Friday of the two-CD set “Mingus at Carnegie…

Jimmy’s On Congress opening soon Portsmouth NH, jazz and blues club

PORTSMOUTH — The City Council approved a 20-year parking agreement with the owners of the soon-to-be opened Jimmy’s On Congress, intended to make it easier to operate the jazz and…

Joni Mitchell’s Masterpiece At 50 : NPR

Joni Mitchell’s Blue, which turns 50 years old on Tuesday, is an inquiry into personal storytelling, a document of the process of sharing heartache that changes every time someone hears…

John Goldsby: “It’s expected nowadays that you know how to play Brazilian music, or funk, or hip-hop, or metal. A lot of younger bass players can do it all“

Bassist, bandleader, composer, teacher, clinician, and author John Goldsby is a dream interviewee, and not just because he’s an interesting guy with a wealth of experience. A journalist to the core,…