Wayne Shorter: 'Happening,' and Meandering, a Burst at a Time
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The jazz great talks about composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, and about "Footprints," a new two-disc retrospective of Mr. Shorter's music.
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This American icon seems destined to lag for the forseeable future.
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Bob Dylan is not at the Toronto International Film Festival. But six shades of Dylan are present with "I'm Not There," a swirling, shifting ramble through the many lives of one of the most enigmatic figures in music history.
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'Air' and 'Arcade Fire' offer new albums this week.
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A secret of Keith JarrettÂs triumph last year at Carnegie Hall sounds like a punch line: practice.
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A growing number of contemporary musicians and techno enthusiasts have reignited interest in the Moog, which can synthesize any sound imaginable.
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I always knew this day would come. Iâd be talking to somebody and theyâd say: âHey, did you hear, Maynard Ferguson died this week?â I knew Iâd go home, crack open a beer, crank up the stereo, and retreat into the pure raw energy of a jazz trumpet legend, one of my lifelong heroes.
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Richard Prince blurs the distinctions between life and art, truth and fiction, and even automaking and sculpture.
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Wynton Marsalis, the trumpet-playing star and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, has become an entity above and around the daily jazz world.
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Todd Haynes is known for films that are daring and arty and donât always make sense. Inside the making of his weirdest, most audacious work yet.
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Short stories these days are often less formulaic than they used to be, as a new anthology demonstrates.
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This documentary about Duke Ellington is too meandering to be of much use to the uninitiated, but Ellington fans will be grateful for the vintage film clips.
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The composer and musician shares his stylish essentials.
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Numerous breakthrough directors from the 1990s have taken breaks between films â long ones.
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With a new festival presented by Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein will loom prominently on New York's music scene next fall.
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Some music is tailor-made for open-topped convertibles.
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In a wise new novel, life happens, haphazardly