Tag: Jerome Kern

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR It’s hard to know where to start when writing a remembrance of Les Block, a multifaceted musician, ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR A conversation with Les Block, our local music maven, wends through time and space, and touches on ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Regarding the concept behind his new album, Notes from New York (Impulse!), pianist Bill Charlap mentions that ...

Don’t miss Words By: Ira Gershwin and the Great American Songbook, by Joe Vass, onstage at Park Square Theatre Reviewed ...

Park Square Theater presents Words By... Ira Gershwin and the Great American Songbook, which runs through Dec. 29. This is ...

Max Raabe and the 12-piece Palast Orchester bring the music of a bygone era in Germany to the Dakota Jazz ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR It’s hard to imagine American popular song without the contributions of Jewish composers and lyricists. Names like ...

David Lehman, the author of seven volumes of poetry, examines what is Jewish about American popular song, and how Jewish ...