NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Givonna Joseph of Loyola University New Orleans and Gwen Thompkins of WWNO radio about the influence of opera on jazz music. And that is Jelly Roll Morton, the jazz ...
Detroit Opera made a strong impression Saturday night with the sprawling jazz opera “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” a production that bore skilled performances and excellent music but proved a ...
It almost sounds like a Lifetime movie: A successful opera singer decides to leave the road behind and turn her passion for home cooking and love of music into a space where the two arts meet in ...
From Herbie Hancock to blues great Buddy Guy to a message from Pope Leo XIV, this globally watched concert was both a who’s ...
Both dive deeply into undeniable relationships between notes and truth. Both know when to follow a brilliantly written script and when to be fearless enough to embrace deconstruction and the deeper ...
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If you go to see an opera in Sarasota, chances are you’re not going to spot the composer in the orchestra pit or in the ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Two critics discuss Terence Blanchard’s “Fire,” the Metropolitan Opera’s first work by a Black composer. By Giovanni Russonello and Seth Colter Walls ...
And that is Jelly Roll Morton, the jazz legend, playing "Miserere" from the opera "Il Trovatore" for Alan Lomax in 1938. Jazz, of course, is born of the African American experience and draws from ...