Wikipedia tells us that in ancient Indian literature, the term sutra denotes a distinct type of literary composition, based on short aphoristic statements. Similarly concise motifs lie at the heart of ...

Jazz fans are much like baseball geeks; they collect facts and statistics. The baseball fan will know a player's numbers such as on base percentage, at bats, home runs and stolen bases, whereas the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Andre “3000” Benjamin released an ambient, flute-forward — and Grammy-nominated — work last year as his first-ever ...

Pianist Matthew Shipp is among the new breed of jazz musicians who find inspiration outside the genre. He’s recorded with indie-rock darlings Yo La Tengo and U.K. drum & bass experimentalists Spring ...

Matthew Shipp has spent the past 15 years on an inspiring crusade to move jazz out of its coddled museum state. With a hand in nearly 40 albums, he's served as a lightning rod for jazz players ...

The pianist tells it straight about avant-garde music, the Rothko Chapel, laying into André 3000, and championing a Constitutional right to hate on Donald Trump. Not since Miles Davis was captured ...

Earlier this week, André 3000 surprise-dropped an improvisational piano EP and showed up to the Met Gala with an entire piano on his back. It serves as the follow-up to his 2023 flute album New Blue ...

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