Billy Eckstine once said to an aspiring vocalist "Use your natural chops, never affect an accent that is not your own" and to her credit there is not one iota of affectation in Suzanne Pittson's vocal ...

Someone is lying. It is not possible that both of the following statements are true: President Trump ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller (as sources have told The New York Times) and ...

John Vanore & Abstract Truth's Contagious Words has the qualities of either a small big-band date or a big small-band date, depending on the perspective. There are twelve musicians listed on every ...

Great abstract painters like Pollock and Monet lose themselves in colour, sensation and memory to show that reality is subjective Abstract art is a kind of miracle. How can a painting that is just a ...

If big band jazz began on dance hall stages, it didn't take long to move up to the concert hall. It was a move that offered musicians new possibilities. Danceable swing was great, but the concert hall ...

A paint-covered glove holding onto a brush glides back and forth, back and forth, dips into her paint, and motions back and forth across the canvas again, spreading a layer of green to set the piece’s ...

Grammy-winning pianist Bill Cunliffereprises his tribute to Oliver Nelson “Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2” on Friday at the Radisson in Culver City. We recall the debut well enough, performed ...