“There are more people playing jazz music at a higher level than ever before in the history of jazz.” That’s Ian Buss’s answer when I ask him about choosing a career playing straight-ahead jazz music ...

We all know that 3D printers are great for churning out plastic trinkets and tiny sculptures of questionable artistic worth, but what makes the technology truly exciting is when users push the its ...

There’s a move perfected by middle school orchestra members — mainly clarinet players, in my experience — that emerges directly after a musician makes a jarring mistake during a performance. The ...

Balkan Beat Box, a trio formed by Gogol Bordello’s Ori Kaplan and Firewater’s Tamir Muskat, has been doing strange things with Mediterranean styles and electronic sounds for over a decade. A band with ...