The British pop duo Wham! was the first Western act of its kind to play mainland China. This documentary reveals the hidden agenda of the shows. By Glenn Kenny After recovering from a life-threatening ...

If pop is the musical equivalent of widely enjoyed fast food, jazz would be its high-brow, haute counterpart. However, several mainstream artists aim to combine the best of modern pop and classic jazz ...

How jazz moved from a position of dominance in popular music to a niche music but also to the status of Black classical music. Once, the world swung to the rhythm of jazz—from the lively dives of New ...

There’s a smallish club called Rockwood Music Hall on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, around the corner from the legendary Katz’s Delicatessen. It’s the sort of place a young, striving musician might ...

...the applied nature of their work as jazz musicians makes them practicing Schenkerians who immediately see the background structure and work intimately with it, even in their first encounters with ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Enrico Nicola Mancini was born on April 16, 1924, in ...

A stirring but tonally muddled new musical about the “poison queen of Palermo” gets an elegant Off Broadway production. By Elisabeth Vincentelli On “Confessions II,” a successor to her hit 2005 album ...