When Cal State Fullerton music professors Bill Cunliffe and Rob Watson were looking for a student to send to a piano competition in China, they both thought of freshman Mathew Yang. The 18-year-old is ...

The names of Johann Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff do not necessarily conjure images and sounds of jazz in one's mind, that is until one has listened to recordings by ...

The names of Johann Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff do not necessarily conjure images and sounds of jazz in one's mind, that is until one has listened to recordings by ...

Jazz people like to brag that their idiom is “America’s classical music.” But if you catch some of them in a certain mood, you’ll find that they long to merge their art with what much of the Western ...

At the Kennedy Center’s incandescent “Jazz Meets the Classics” concert on Monday, the Paquito D’Rivera quintet did a strong set of Latin takes on classical repertoire. Standing out in those ...

Since the appearance of jazz in the early 20th century, jazz and classical have mostly lived on opposite sides of town, separated by tracks that most listeners won’t cross. This has long remained the ...

Musicians pay tribute to Corea-Burton-Ozone in Durango, Farmington Classical music lovers, meet cool jazz. How about jazz fans listening to the likes of Maurice Ravel or Samuel Barber? How about ...

NEW YORK - Keith Jarrett declared he was done with classical music recordings after recovering from the chronic fatigue syndrome that sidelined him for nearly two years in the late 1990s. But the jazz ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In Sunday’s Arts & Books section, I explore the storied history of ...

IT DOESN’T take a musical genius to recognise the differences between performances by Arthur Rubinstein and Duke Ellington. They were both prominent pianists in the 20th century, but were known for ...