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Jazz Pianist Tigran Wins $35,000 Prize for Contemporary Music

The Vilcek Foundation is pleased to announce Yo-Yo Ma as the winner of the 2013 Vilcek Prize for Contemporary Music. While Mr. Ma is widely acknowledged as a master cellist in the field of classical music, the Vilcek Prize is the first to recognize and honor his contributions to contemporary music. The annual Vilcek Prize in ...

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Article: Genius Guide to the Good Life

Someone's in the Kitchen With Genius

Read "Someone's in the Kitchen With Genius" reviewed by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius

by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius

When I am holed up in the 'Dome living the life of a nearly complete recluse (I do occasionally venture out to earn a living, and to buy beer and groceries and then more beer), one of my favorite pastimes is cooking. I first began learning to cook at the age of five, almost forty years ...

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Article: Album Review

Lajos Dudas Trio: Live at Porgy & Bess

Read "Live at Porgy & Bess" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Hungarian-German clarinetist Lajos Dudas has quite the résumé in Europe, with about 50 recordings to his credit. He has been around long enough to have had clarinetist Artie Shaw remark on his talent, but do not mistake his longevity with a marriage to the traditional mainstream of jazz; it is anything but. Dudas has adventurous spirit ...

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Article: Album Review

Tim Green Saxophone: Songs From This Season

Read "Songs From This Season" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Saxophonists Eric Alexander, Chris Potter, Jimmy Greene, John Ellis and Marcus Strickland all have at least one thing in common: they were all second or third place finishers in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition who went on to become leading lights in the world of jazz. Alto saxophonist Tim Green may very well join ...

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Article: Profile

Matthew Shipp: Shipp Shifts

Read "Matthew Shipp: Shipp Shifts" reviewed by Chris Rich

by Chris Rich

Pianist Matthew Shipp's artistic collaboration community is a counterpart to his business community. It is its own ecosystem of multidisciplinary work, scholarly conversations and mentorship.The TrioThe trio is Shipp's main vehicle. It is, by turns, his midnight train, his slow boat to China and a way of flying home. It takes a ...

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Article: Interview

Francesca Han: Right Music, Right Time

Read "Francesca Han: Right Music, Right Time" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Korea has never been more fashionable, leading the way in technological advances and dictating hair styles, television viewing, eye shape and pop music trends across Asia and beyond. The mindboggling response to singer PSY's song “Gangnam Style," with over a billion hits on You Tube, epitomizes the phenomena of the so-called “Korean Wave." Fewer people, inevitably, ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Buddy Rich: In a Zone of His Own

Read "Buddy Rich: In a Zone of His Own" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

One of the channels that came with my Dish Network package is Classic Arts Showcase, which is a treasure trove of film clips documenting classical, ballet, folk, pop and other forms of music that one is unlikely to see anywhere else (although some footage is presumably available on YouTube, which more and more seems to encompass ...

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Article: Album Review

Barry Altschul: The 3dom

Read "The 3dom" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Seems of late, Mr Simon, Mr Garfunkel and the nation have been singing “Coo, coo, ca- choo, Mrs. Robinson" not for Joe DiMaggio or the deceased Ann Bancroft, but for drummer Barry Altschul. Somehow, in the 1980s and '90s we misplaced him. Actually, he moved to Europe, recording for smaller labels before he quietly returned to ...

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Article: Album Review

Marc Riordan Quartet: Binoculars

Read "Binoculars" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Question: when is a pianist-led recording also a drummer's record? That query, as it relates to pianist Marc Riordan's Binoculars, is not poised as a Zen koan, because there is an answer.The correct response: when the pianist is a drummer.Riordan, an up-and-coming percussionist in the Chicago music scene, can be heard in ...

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Article: Interview

Sara Serpa: A Musical Journey

Read "Sara Serpa: A Musical Journey" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

Vocalist and composer Sara Serpa is one of the most original and innovative musicians to emerge since the turn of the century. She has already made an indelible mark on the modern music scene in the span of a mere four years. Her unique style of vocalese allows her to utilize the full range of her ...


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