It's easy to make the case for a symbiosis between wine and jazz but harder to sound persuasive when arguing that the perfect accompaniment to listening to jazz on a crisp autumn afternoon is a nice ...

Flute On The Edge is a thoroughly enjoyable, if somewhat predictable, jazz release by a flute-led jazz quartet. Jeremy Steig addresses the issue of flute as jazz instrument slightly differently than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. André 3000 has gotten used to not having expectations over the years. Since rattling the mainstream music foundation as one-half ...

*Flute-playing soul-jazz phenomenon Ragan Whiteside has releasesed a brand-new single titled “Off The Cuff” on the Randis Music label (scroll down to HEAR it). The flirty new groove, co-written by ...

1) Fred Tompkins - flute & Emu sample programming; 2) Fred Tompkins - flute & Emu sample programming, Charlie Dent - drums; 3, 4 & 5) Fred Tompkins - flute, Jim Hegarty - piano; 6) Fred Tompkins - ...

The flute is having a moment, says our music reporter Giovanni Russonello. André 3000, of OutKast fame, released his album “New Blue Sun” late last year. On it, he traded rap and his distinctive voice ...

Once I called a promoter about playing in his festival,” recalls jazz flutist Holly Hofmann, “and he said, ‘You’re a white female flute player and you want to play in this festival? You’ve got to be ...

Bluff • “Start from silence!” third grade teacher Sarah Burak repeats, raising her voice above the din of 10 elementary school students playing traditional Native American wooden flutes. Her class, ...

I first met Herbie Mann in January 1979, when I noticed him bursting out of a phone booth in the parking lot of Tower Records in L.A. It wasn’t the noted jazz flutist in the flesh, of course, but ...

Do you ever reflect upon the challenges of our city and feel like you want to do something to make a positive impact? Are you not sure what that ‘something’ should be? At Washington City Paper, we ...