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A profile of retro-futurist local musician Brian Dewan.
Peter Aaron talks with jazz legend Carla Bley about the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, her Remarkable Big Band, and the culmination of “Christmas all year ‘round.”
Peter Aaron reviews Favorite Encores by Noah Creshevsky and If, Bwana.
Peter Aaron talks to Kelleigh McKenzie about the banjo, the stomp box, and her debut album Chances.
Peter Aaron reviews Marilyn Crispell’s latest album Vignettes.
Peter Aaron talks to Todd Mack, founder of FODFest (the “Friends of Danny” festival) which remembers musician and journalist Daniel Pearl on what would have been his 45th birthday this month.
Whole lotta impersonatin’ going on: Peter Aaron profiles Elvis impersonator Joseph John Eigo.
Peter Aaron profiles Vladimir Pleshakov, owner of The Pleshakov Piano Museum, which houses restored pianos that date back to the 1700s.
“To play [music] correctly, you really have to leave your ego out of it.” Peter Aaron profiles self-taught Cottekill-based saxophonist Joe Giardullo about how music has shaped his life since his discovery of R&B in the early ‘50s.
Peter Aaron profiles Woodstock-based quietists Ida.
Peter Aaron finds musical history in West Hurley.
Rock legend Genya Ravan discusses her long and winding career in the music business.
Jam-band Madeski, Martin and Wood are making music the whole family can enjoy.
Michael and Ruth Ungar spent their Honeymoon in the recording studio making a beautiful album as a duo.
Triumphing over many hardships, local legend Levon Helm continues to make great music.
Blueberry is Snyder’s ongoing “band” concept, a project that has released three albums of sultry, psychedelic pop-soul on the singer and multi-instrumentalist’s own The Shaz Records.
The New Friends of Rhythm is one of the few big jazz bands that successfully played classical adaptions. Listen to this collection.
Meet Eric Mingus. He makes quite an impression.
Peter Aaron interviews Graham Parker.
The first of two CDs recorded to document the 30-year career of Paul Nash, before his death in 2005.
A family run coffee shop where you can get a side of blues, hip hop, or hard rock with your apple crisp.
Weird isn’t the word for this spectacle; the Laura Pepitone Show and her infinite energy are almost too much—dizzying, inspiring, funny, and extremely entertaining, in one surreal serving.
Samuel Claiborne has certainly had no shortage of pain and spiritual trials from which to draw for the sparse, fathomless, and profoundly moving solo piano improvisations in The Annunciation.
This is TONTO, which, at a height of five feet and occupying 300 square feet, is the world’s largest analog synthesizer and the very one played by Stevie Wonder.
Tim Livingston is back with The Last Conspirators, a quartet that brings a welcome, Information Age crunch to the tough, melodic sounds of late ’70s/early ’80s Brit-punk.
Part of a burgeoning scene of new, tradition-conscious American acoustic artists, The Hunger Mountain Boys bypass the ill turns country has made in recent times.
The Hunger Mountain Boys bypass the ill turns country has made in recent times, instead taking the music back to its 1920s and ’30s rural, string-band roots.
Formed in New York City around the core, husband-and-wife duo of Michael Peters (vocals, guitar) and Sandra Gardner (bass, vocals, keyboards), Poem Rocket has been plying its highly individual brand of electroacoustic, post-punk art pop for nearly 15 years.
This 20-track collection by the Valatie husband-and-wife duo of Sheri Bauer-Mayorga and Lincoln Mayorga is the aural equivalent of a Ken Burns documentary, a broad-scoped survey of American popular music.
The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival offers a full schedule of performances by composers from America and abroad, as well as workshops, live improvisation, children’s events, master classes, music business seminars, free gallery recitals, and more.
“I really believe that years from now we will look back on some of Joe McPhee’s records as some of the most important records ever made,” says jazz historian and Chicagoan John Corbett.
It’s 2007 and there’s a war on. If you’re a teen or twenty-something with a brain, what do you want, The Cranberries?
Prior to the Homespun Tapes’ there hadn’t really been any way to learn how to play folk music other than by transcribing it by ear from old 78s or by getting enlightenment firsthand.
Anyone who spent time in lower Manhattan during the years covered in editor Brandon Stosuy’s rich and riveting anthology, Up Is Up But So Is Down, will tell you the same thing: Their city is gone.
A profile of award-winning composer George Tsontakis.
Singer-songwriter Adam Snyder gives his city its due.
David Perry, _Chronogram_’s art director, has a penchant for designing elaborate calendars.
Painter Tona Wilson’s latest paintings, an homage to German Expressionism, are being shown through January 21 at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson.
In 2001, ex-Del Fuegos frontman Dan Zanes kicked off the kids’ music revival. Local acts like Dog on Fleas, Uncle Rock, and Elizabeth Mitchell are furthering the renaissance, crafting tunes even adults can love.
Peter Aaron profiles Rich Conaty, host of “The Big Broadcast,” radio’s long-running program of 1920s and ‘30s jazz and pop.
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