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Jukebox

Jazz Requiem
February 2008 | By Jess Blumberg

African American opera company

Lifting their Voices

Paying tribute to America's first black opera
January 30, 2008 | By Marian Smith Holmes

Jukebox

Seeger Singalong
January 2008 | By Jess Blumberg

“I still get absolutely shocked,” says Spektor (in London in February 2006) of her rising popularity, “and that a very particularly amazing feeling.” Her virtuosity and singular style are attracting legions of fans, both mature and teen.

Russian Idol

Moscow-born Regina Spektor draws on classical music roots to create and perform pop songs of rare originality
October 2007 | By Caryn Ganz

Jazz innovator Jason Moran says he was transformed at age 14 by the music of Thelonious Monk: “Any money I earned from a gig, I’d run out and buy Monk records.”

Keeper of the Keys

Pianist Jason Moran laces his strikingly original music with the soulful sounds of jazz greats
October 2007 | By Jamie Katz

Jukebox

Ode to a Federal Entitlement
October 2007 | By Jess Blumberg

Mariza is gaining a reputation as the new queen of fado.

Portugal's Soulful Sound

Often compared to American blues, fado is gaining global appeal
June 01, 2007 | By Dina Modianot-Fox

The first Chicago Blues Festival

Blues Alley

How Chicago became the blues capital of the world
May 01, 2007 | By Katy June-Friesen

The Supremes

The Real Dreamgirls

How girl groups changed American music
February 01, 2007 | By Katy June-Friesen

35 Who Made a Difference: Renée Fleming

The soprano is renowned for her beguiling voice and presence
November 01, 2005 | By Stephen Hastings

"He was an incredible piano player, the most fantastic in jazz," Frank Driggs says of Earl Hines (at the microphone with his band in Philadelphia in 1932). The photo is one of more than 78,000 in Driggs

Jazz Man

Louis Armstrong before he was Satchmo? A youthful Ella? For photographs of musicians great or obscure, just about everyone turns to Frank Driggs
September 2005 | By Jerry Adler

Going for the Gold

A pop-music confection known as The Village People belted out disco hits in the 1970s that morphed into American standards
July 2005 | By Owen Edwards

Jazzed About Roy Haynes

A robust 78, one of the greatest drummers of all time still riffs up a storm and wows fellow musicians
December 2003 | By Sam Stephenson

Phillip Glass

Meet Phillip Glass

From opera halls to neighborhood movie theaters, Philip Glass attracts an enormous audience many of whom have never listened to classical music
November 2003 | By Harry Sumrall

Newport, 1968: B.B. King (b. 1925) reached a widening audience.

Focus on the Blues

Richard Waterman's never-before-published photographs caught the roots music legends at their down-home best
September 2003 | By David Friend

Camping in Concert

At this outdoor folk-music festival in rural Texas, you're not a "Kerrvivor" unless you stay till the end
June 2000 | By Minna Morse


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