By Kerry O’Brien and William Robin, co-authors of On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement
“Thursday evening was a major moment for musical Minimalism,” the New York Times declared last month. The Chicago Symphony had played a new Philip Glass work at Carnegie Hall while, nine blo...
By Kimberly Hannon Teal, author of Jazz Places: How Performance Spaces Shape Jazz History
In some ways, it’s completely unremarkable that pianist Fred Hersch spent his 66th birthday earlier this October recording a live album at the Village Vanguard in New York City with guitarist Juli...