Sima Bina and the Lian Ensemble Team to Bring New Life to Persian Traditions
Fars Media A woman comes into a cozy courtyard behind a small West Los Angeles house, joining ... Read More »
Cuba's Carlos Varela and Jackson Browne Bond Over the 'Power of Music'
Olivia Bendres A couple of frontline singer-songwriters, an Oscar-winning actor and assorted ... Read More »
Sanda Weigl's 'Gypsy in a Tree' Yields Romanian-Jazz-Cabaret Fruit
Tiberiu Crisan Sanda Weigl could be forgiven if she got a little disoriented during a recent ... Read More »
Susana Baca Traces 'Afrodiaspora From Peru to New Orleans Through Song
Luaka Bop Susana Baca has shed a remarkable amount of light on the music and culture of her ... Read More »
Bhangra Brass Band Red Baraat Blends New Delhi and New York at Jazz Fest
Amy Touchette It was one of those only-at-Jazz-Fest phenomena. The annual New Orleans ... Read More »
Amjad Ali Khan Masters the 'Demanding' Beauty of the Sarod
World Village You might be struck by the opening of 'Samaagam,' a consistently striking and ... Read More »
Paul Simon, Robert Plant, Dengue Fever + Ghazal -- Around the World in Five Days
Dengue Fever It started with the Mastadong. "It" being a trip that went from California to ... Read More »
The Unthanks Dive Into Their Dark Folk Heritage and Cover King Crimson
The-Unthanks.com Rachel Unthank laughs at darkness and desolation. Literally. The singer, ... Read More »
Femi Kuti Takes His Message to the Battlefield on 'Africa for Africa'
Julien Mignot Having been a working musicians since his teens and standing today as ... Read More »
Azam Ali Crafts Grown-Up Middle-Eastern Lullabies on 'From the Night'
Austin Young Lullabies, as it turns out, are not for babies. The song 'Noor (The Light in ... Read More »
Jazz Fest to Honor Haiti's Musical and Tragic Relationship With New Orleans
Daniel Morel When the bands RAM Haiti and Boukman Eksperyans played at the 1994 New Orleans ... Read More »
Hawk and a Hacksaw Trace Northern New Mexico Sonic Roots to Eastern Europe
Courtesy A Hawk and a Hacksaw The Northern New Mexico town of Espanola is not generally viewed ... Read More »
Vijay Iyer's 'Tirtha' Is Not Indian Jazz -- and Is Not NOT Indian Jazz
Alan Nahigian Vijay Iyer is explaining about gamaka, one of the keystone elements of Indian ... Read More »
Music Freedom Day to Celebrate Voices of -- and Under -- Oppression
Jen Bell Cairo's Tahrir Square has been the site of some remarkable events in recent weeks. ... Read More »
'Mistico Mediterraneo' Seduces With Corsican-Sardinian-Italian Folk-Jazz-Classical Magic
Andrea Boccalini It's a Romeo and Juliet story. Only instead of being set in the bloody ... Read More »
Sussan Deyhim 'City of Leaves' Album Bridges Tehran to Tarzana
Virgo Paraiso Sussan Deyhim's bracing new album, 'City of Leaves,' is an amalgamation of all ... Read More »
