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Spring 2022
Features | May 16, 2022
Let Freedom Ring
The great body of music from trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith can be seen as one long series of empowering acts.
Spring 2022
Features | April 19, 2022
Clearing the Way
With its multi-year UNCOVERED project, the Catalyst Quartet aims to ensure that the works of Florence Price, Samuel Coleridge
Winter 2022
Features | February 14, 2022
Afraid of Nothing
The cellist Seth Parker Woods’ fearless embrace of the unknown.
Winter 2022
Features | January 10, 2022
Always Changing
In a career spanning five decades, Tania León has built a singular body of work by following her evolving identity...
Summer 2021
Features | July 18, 2021
The Right People at the Right Time
Mills College—a longtime bastion of musical experimentalism—plans to end its degree programs in 2023. For decades, the school
Spring 2021
Features | April 20, 2021
Something Bigger Than Us
The Navajo trumpeter Delbert Anderson built a community of jazz lovers in northwestern New Mexico.
Winter 2021
Features | February 15, 2021
From One World to Another
Rhiannon Giddens’ appointment as the first dedicated artistic director of Silkroad since Yo-Yo Ma’s departure marks...
Fall 2020
Features | October 12, 2020
Ensembles as Communities
Making space for queer identities in chamber music.
Spring 2020
Features | April 18, 2020
Just for Us
Tomeka Reid thinks every jazz ensemble should have strings. Her annual Chicago Jazz String Summit shows why.
Winter 2020
Features | January 27, 2020
Question Everything
The pianist, vocalist, and composer Samora Pinderhughes embraces a multidisciplinary, politically-grounded artistic practice
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