Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda will be celebrated in New Orleans on January 14 and 16 with a two-part performance and ...

You walk into the bookstore or the library, you stare at the endless shelves of options, and you don’t know what to pick - it ...

Epiphanies come, as epiphanies do, in unexpected and often far-flung settings. For trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, three such ...

The jazz harp is an unusual concept. The upside is that it makes the player instantly stand out because of the dearth of jazz harpists. A potential downside is that jazz fans may turn away, thinking a ...

This is FRESH AIR. The harp has never been commonplace in jazz, but it's not a novelty either. In the '50s, Dorothy Ashby pioneered a space for the instrument, mastering bebop, soul, jazz and other ...