On a warm August evening, The Ford theater became a vessel for poignant storytelling as “The Just and the Blind” premiered to a captivated audience. Conceived and written by spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph, with an original score by composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, the multimedia performance blended poetry, music, […]
Kaylene Peoples interviews Melanie Wise about the 6th Edition of Artemis Women In Action Film Festival. A lot has changed but a lot has remained the same in 2021 for this groundbreaking festival that has brought us strong women characters in both film! “We’ve always done live events, brick and […]
Terri Lyne Carrington is an accomplished musician, composer and producer. She also teaches at Berklee College of Music, and is their artistic director for the annual Boston Beantown Jazz Festival. Over the span of four decades (her professional career began at the age of eleven as a jazz drummer prodigy), […]
Well it’s that time of year, the holiday season. Our December/January issue #3 features Melissa Manchester’s 21st album The Fellas (interviewed by Sheryl Aronson of Arting Around); power drummer and pianist Virgil Donati’s latest CD The Dawn of Time; and we take a look at the evolving career of Parisian […]
What do you get when you put Kirk Whalum, Norman Brown, and Keiko Matsui together on the same bill for A Gospel According to Jazz Christmas Concert? Two hours of incandescent, ingenious, musical magic that suffuses the spirit.
Phil Perry’s vocals float with a heavenly lightness mingled with an unfathomable lavishness of soulful romance, so with each note this artist exposes his inner being. He sings about . . . love. No matter how many compositions that Phil Perry has sung on this topic, his interpretation and technique emerges fresh, probing the mysteries, delighting the senses.
Saturday, September 26, 2015, was an incredible day for global unity. Hollywood’s musical royalty and the world’s business and government leaders gathered together to help achieve what is just the beginning of our world’s noble goals for Sustainable Development. More than 60,000 citizens attended, while millions watched live throughout the […]
