The jazz image : masters of jazz photography

No mean jazz photographer himself--see his Images of Jazz (1996)--Lee Tanner generously shares space with his peers in this album for which he wrote the historical preface, explaining why jazz photography is an after-1930 development.

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Fugue for Man and Machine

Classical musicians have bitterly opposed replacing human players with computers in the orchestra pit. Now, a small group is breaking ranks -- and arguing that it's the best hope for revitalizing the art. Cue the laptop.

To read the entire article from the Wall Street Journal, click HERE

And for more information on digital orchestra music, visit the Digital Orchestra League's website HERE

Benny Golson: From Jazz to Hollywood and back

Saxophone player Benny Golson played with jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey, and wrote music for the TV shows M*A*S*H and Mission Impossible. On NPR's Morning Edition, he talks about his role in reshaping Blakey's band as well as the bit part in a Stephen Spielberg movie that helped revitalize his career.

To read the article and listen to the NPR interview, click HERE

Mstislav Rostropovich, Dissident Maestro, Dies

Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist and conductor who was renowned not only as one of the great instrumentalists of the 20th century but also as an outspoken champion of artistic freedom in the Soviet Union during the last decades of the cold war, died on April 27th in Moscow.

To read the entire New York Times obituary, click HERE