The middle child of the string family, the cello isn't heard from often enough in the improv world. Those who do pick up the instrument in jazz and experimental musics—Ron Carter, Tom Cora, Tristan ...

Some instrumental configurations are well-established: the string quartet in classical music, the piano trio in jazz, the guitars-plus-drums setup in rock. Others come as a surprise. Such is the case ...

The old and the new come together on Warblepeck, saxophonist Tony Malaby's first CD as leader since 2003. Malaby has played previously with multi-instrumentalist John Hollenbeck, defining new paths ...

Since its beginnings in 1997, Red Cedar Chamber Music has explored the road less traveled. Founding members Jan Boland and John Dowdall of Marion broke conventions with their flute/guitar duo, often ...

Beginning with the Beethoven performance below, The Beaux Arts Trio gave more than 100 concerts at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., over the course of five decades. Enjoy this sampling of ...

A teen cellist plays an electrifying arrangement of Monti's Czardas and speaks about organizing his own concert series to benefit a special Boston-area music program. We also meet a trio of close ...

To those of you who are not already subscribers to San Francisco Performance's current season -- too bad! You do not get into the next intriguing program for free. As one of its two "gift concerts" ...

The CDs likely to be released in this, Chopin’s bicentenary year can hardly fail to be weighted in favour of his solo piano music, since that is the area to which he devoted the bulk of his creative ...

Amedeo Baldovino could have panicked. The ship that the cellist was on had caught fire between Uruguay and Argentina, causing him and the other two members of the Trieste Piano Trio to jump into the ...