Genesis told Steve Hackett they liked a song on his second solo album. The song was one of the reasons he’d quit the band ...

If I had to choose one word to describe the Arkansas Symphony's Saturday-night Masterworks concert at Little Rock's Robinson Center Performance Hall, it would be "dramatic." ...

Listen to a Keith Jarrett live show and you will regularly hear, buzzing almost out of earshot like a honey bee, Jarrett’s voice, as he double-tracks his own prettiest bits of p ...

GRAMMY Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs will join the Cleveland Orchestra for a series of performances featuring POULENC’S ORGAN CONCERTO. Scheduled for April 2026, these concerts mark a notable ...

When the Straight profiled Marina Hasselberg for her revelatory debut Red a couple of years ago, the Vancouver cellist made a refreshingly candid admission. Some artists are content to go through the ...

The Hammond organ was a bit of an unsung hero among 20th-century rock songs, including these three legendary tracks.

In Southern California jazz-band circles in the late 1960s and ’70s, Patrice Rushen was just such a figure. Her name rang out before she had even entered a recording studio. In 1972, days before the ...

Ólafsson’s playing consistently drew out the richness and variety of the writing, especially in the opening Toccata. Here, ...

It’s been quite a March for magnificent cello playing, what with Yo-Yo Ma joining the Minnesota Orchestra and Matt Haimovitz hitting some pubs with pianist Christopher O’Riley. But, if you love the ...