Milford Graves, free jazz pioneer, rest in peace
The renowned jazz percussionist had been suffering from amyloid cardiomyopathy. He was 79.
Milford Graves
Andrew Cyrille played the 2019 Vision Festival kickoff (pics, video)
The 2019 Vision Festival kicked off on Tuesday (6/11) with a tribute to and performance by drummer and jazz great Andrew Cyrille who is this year's Vision Lifetime Achievement honoree. Over the course of four hours, the 79-year-old drummer played eight different sets...
Hopscotch 2019 lineup: Sleater-Kinney, James Blake, Jenny Lewis, Kurt Vile more
The 2019 edition of Raleigh, NC's Hopscotch Festival happens Sept. 5-7 at venues all over the city and they've just announced the lineup, including the first announced Sleater-Kinney show of 2019.
Neil Young & Willie Nelson in new Western, part of 2018 SXSW Film Fest lineup
SXSW Film Festival will also premiere The Last OG, the new series starring Tracy Morgan and created by Oscar nominee Jordan Peele; Netflix's new hip hop documentary series Rapture; and more.
Big Ears expands 2018 lineup (Four Tet, Arto Lindsay, Ikue Mori, Marc Ribot, more)
Additions include Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) + Mats Gustafsson (The Thing), Paal Nilssen-Love (The Thing) + Arto Lindsay, Ikue Mori, Marc Ribot, Yuka C. Honda (Cibo Matto), and more.
Big Ears 2018 lineup (GY!BE, Diamanda Galas, Bonnie Billy, Gas, Four Tet, more)
The awesome lineup also includes Jenny Hval, Juana Molina, Julie Byrne, Kelly Lee Owens, Laurel Halo, Lightning Bolt, Rostam, Sam Amidon, Steve Gunn, and still much more.
NYC’s Vision Festival 2015 lineup, schedule & tickets
This year marks the Twentieth Anniversary of the Vision Festival. To celebrate this milestone Arts for Art (AFA) plans 6 days that sets the standard for creative FreeJazz music, dance, visual art and ideas, which embrace values that challenge and inf...
Lou Reed, John Zorn, MGMT and more collaborating with Joshua Light Show for NYC performanc…
The Joshua Light Show, founded by multimedia artist Joshua White, is perhaps the most legendary group of live music visualists. As resident artists at Bill Graham's Fillmore East during the late 1960's, and in performances at Woodstock, Newport Jazz Festival, Tanglewood, Carnegie Hall, and…
Mode Records benefit w/ Philip Glass (whose opera is @ BAM tonight) & John Zorn (who plays…
Mode Records has etched its name in the annals of music history, producing the avant-garde and modern classical music of influential composers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Iannis Xenakis, and Harry Partch...