Jazz Articles about Joe Goldberg

About Joe Goldberg

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Cincinnati Pops Orchestra: Harlem Renaissance

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by Jack Bowers
May 1, 2026

New York's Harlem Renaissance, which spanned the 1920s and '30s, was an intellectual and cultural movement of music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship that reshaped African-American culture and mores in Harlem and beyond and led to a new militancy and dedication to the cause of civil rights and equality for people of color in the U.S. On Harlem Renaissance, the celebrated Cincinnati Pops Orchestra honors the movement by delving into its music and depicting the ...

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Gabriel Evan Orchestra: Global Entry

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by Jack Bowers
May 13, 2021

At least one dictionary defines an orchestra as “a large instrumental ensemble...which combines instruments from different families including bowed string instruments...woodwinds...brass...percussion..." and “other instruments such as the piano, celeste...and harp..." Or, in the vernacular of New York-based saxophonist Gabriel Evan, a jazz sextet with some but not all of the above. Which is an around-the-block way of saying that Evan's “orchestra" lands somewhere short of the normal definition. And that's by no means the only anomaly on ...