Susan Alcorn, the pioneering pedal steel player who steered the instrument in experimental, improvisational directions, has ...

Jazz virtuoso Scott Robinson brings his unique '10 By Sax' performance to Pittsfield’s 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival.

As her life is celebrated at the Hammer Museum, a musician, a poet and an artist discuss Alice Coltrane’s creative influence ...

Bassist Gary Peacock played a major role in the development of avant-garde jazz. He has worked with the likes of Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry}, {{Barney Kessel, Don Ellis, Terry ...

Father John Misty at UPAC, Lydia Lunch in Catskill, a Tubby’s fundraiser for Los Angeles, and techno and jazz for Valentine’s Day.

A genre that connects a bunch of music within a particular canon. He cites saxophonist Albert Ayler, for whom spiritual jazz was illogical, healing, heart-level music. “Anyway,” Hutchings says ...

Meet the altruistic young guns hellbent on making the Rust Belt town a cultural epicenter and building community in the ...

Sunny Murray usually gets the credit for establishing the drum style while playing with Albert Ayler; John Coltrane called this free rhythm “multidirectional.” The great jazz drummers of the ...

Having appeared in the late 50s and early 60s on significant envelope-pushing LPs by jazz iconoclasts Ornette Coltrane, John Coltrane, and Albert Ayler, Cherry presented his unique personal ...

For a lot of music fans, The Bad Plus came to public attention as a piano-based trio, covering the likes of Nirvana, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Rush and Blondie alongside their own works. Everything ...