Author: Kevin O'Connor

If ever there was a jazz label more entitled to proclaim some of their stable “All-Stars,” Blue Note Records would surely top that list. Likewise, if there were a better time to celebrate the legacy of a group that’s housed Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Herbie Hancock and Horace Silver than its 75th anniversary, when would […]

If you think about it, the harp is just a piano with its guts strewn about. Or, to be more historically accurate, the piano is a harp with little hammers. However you choose to break it down, the two go together like apples and cinnamon. Classical music has known this for centuries. Japanese pianist Hiromi, […]