Tag: Orchestra Hall

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

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR In his exemplary 2017 memoir, Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In and Out of Jazz, acclaimed ...

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

Jeremy Walker’s brilliant composition, 7 Psalms, will be performed in an evening-length performance Jan. 23 at Orchestra Hall By MORDECAI ...

The Minnesota Orchestra will welcome the Klezmatics — the Grammy Award-winning superstars of klezmer — 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8 ...

Trumpeter and group co-founder Frank London talks with the Jewish World   By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The Klezmatics concert in Minneapolis ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Singer Max Raabe stands erect before the microphone, garbed in a tuxedo and tails with his blonde ...

Dudu Fisher will perform March 12 at Orchestra Hall, in a benefit for Chabad Lubavitch By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Dudu Fisher, ...

Anat Cohen, one of today’s most gifted jazz musicians, will perform April 25 at the Dakota Jazz Club By MORDECAI ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The great Duke Ellington famously said of music: “If it sounds good, it is good.” When Leonard ...