Last year, longtime way-more-than-a-classical-tribute-band Apocalyptica released the overdue sequel to their 1996 head-turner ...

Nine years ago, jazz greats Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith joined forces to release the collaborative album A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke. Both of them have done plenty of big things since then, ...

Veteran jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and the comparatively younger but also-veteran jazz pianist Vijay Iyer have announced ...

Defiant Life is the pianist and trumpeter’s second collaboration, following 2016’s A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke ...

This week’s musical menu includes two concerts featuring the London Symphony Orchestra, and the next Santa Barbara Symphony ...

Alex Pappademas is the Senior Culture Editor of GQ. He has been writing about music, film, television and other forms of popular culture for over 20 years. He is the author of Keanu Reeves: Most ...

Knowing that tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis has a highly omnivorous mind, let’s get straight to it: What time did he ...

On Feb. 9, 1961, Wichita Falls-born alto saxophonist and flutist Leo Wright appeared with Dizzy Gillespie’s quintet in ...

The Music of Wadada Leo Smith The trumpeter and composer joins the Red Koral Quartet for his String Quartet No. 17. 8 p.m.

Easy though, Leo! You love a project like no other sign and if you have your hands in TOO many pots, your partner may feel abandoned. Baecationing will be sublime for paired Leos, especially if ...

in addition to appearing on recent recordings from trumpeter Dave Douglas, guitarist Ava Mendoza, percussionist Ches Smith, jazz-punk hybridists the Messthetics and more. Lewis often describes his ...

James Brandon Lewis is an omnivore’s omnivore. The jazz saxophonist’s fantastic new album channels the work of Don Cherry, ...