Why FONT?

This festival (Festival of New Trumpet Music, or FONT) and its growing organization is dedicated to…


Greenlee on Greenleaf

Thanks to Steve Greenlee of The Boston Globe for the two nods he made to Greenleaf releases. Both…


Jazz and Creative Music at Banff 2009

I will be directing the workshop at Banff again in 2009, from May 18 to June 6. Tentative faculty…


Downbeast celebrates Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

Our friend from Crypto/Downbeast, Matthew Duersten, links to his piece in the Oxford-American which…


Reselling MP3s: The music industry's new battleground?

Aw, now come on... I know none of you are doing this... gulp. A new digital music service is…


The World of Books

Incredible stop-time animation from 4th Estate: This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.


Arts Action

From Americans for the Arts Action Fund: In his first interview on Meet the Press since winning the…


Tuesday, 12/9, Le Poisson Rouge

The NY premiere of an exciting new book for the quintet Brass Ecstasy at Le Poisson Rouge. In…


The Wordy Shipmates

Sarah Vowell's history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Recommended if you like early American…


Joy Writer: Wayne Shorter

This isn't a review of the Wayne Shorter Quartet plus Imani Winds at Carnegie Hall, it's an…


YouTube Symphony Orchestra

Here's an intriguing project with Michael Tilson Thomas and Tan Dun that uses the Google in several…


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