Paris-based Leila Olivesi is an award-winning composer and pianist. She has won Best Musician of the Year awards and a Django Reinhardt prize and she won the Ellington Composers prize in 2013. Add to ...

Trumpet-accordion duos are rare enough to be filed under 'endangered species,' so infrequent are sightings. Dave Douglas and Guy Klucevsek broke cover with a number of duets on the quartet album ...

In postwar America, an epidemic of heroin addiction swept the world of jazz. Greats who developed a habit included John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker. Nowadays, jazz has an ...

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Besson is actually in his not-that-impressionable mid-60s, but an adolescent impulse has run through much of his work over the years, including (and maybe especially) in his best-loved movies, like ...

The Utah Jazz made the biggest swing of the 2026 NBA trade deadline thus far with their move to acquire Jaren Jackson Jr. from the Memphis Grizzlies, giving up a package of Walter Clayton Jr., Taylor ...

The composer’s first unaccompanied album turns extended harp technique into music of intimacy, restraint and conviction – inspired by the women who shaped her world When the London jazz festival ran ...

Some musicians tastelessly plunder songbooks from other artists. Some merely copy the material because they have run out of ideas. Some (in rare cases) burnish the original songs with fresh meaning ...

EuropaCorp has released an interesting new featurette for Dracula: A Love Tale, the gothic romance-drama from legendary French director Luc Besson. The behind-the-scenes video arrives just ahead of ...

The capital’s biggest annual music event, the EFG London Jazz Festival, runs 15 - 24 November and tickets are selling fast. Headliners will include Jamie Cullum, Pat Metheny, Dianne Reeves, Robert ...