Jazz/Blues
PHOTOS: The National's Bryce Dessner, Guitarist Geremy Schulick, The Knights at Brookfield Place Winter Garden for 'New Sounds Live'
EXCLUSIVE: Joshua Bell on HBO YoungArts Masterclass & Mendelssohn Octet; Washington Metro Reprise & Bach Concertos
With his Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority mulligan miles behind him, Joshua Bell is Skyping with me from his suite at the Ritz-Carlton, Dubai. As per usual when talking to the press, the world's greatest living violinist is in between rehearsals. Yes, Bell has traveled to the United Arab Emirates to perform Felix Mendelssohn's 'Violin Concerto' in E minor, Op. 64 at the Royal Opera House Muscat with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields--the storied British band, founded by Sir Neville Marriner in 1958, that Bell remains the only American to have led as both music director and conductor. Flying Lotus at Terminal 5, Music Hall of Williamsburg in Support of 'Your Dead!,' Called a Composer by New York Times
Flying Lotus, aka Steven Ellison, is the man on everyone’s mind this week as he dropped his fifth studio album "Your Dead!" on Warp Records. The 40-minute trip into the nut of Afrofuturism in hip-hop features jazz legend Herbie Hancock alongside Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar. Lotus, who will appear at Terminal 5 and the Music Hall of Williamsburg, recently sat down with The New York Times, who penned him a composer. A coveted title, indeed, Lotus sited Miles Davis as an inspiration for "Your Dead!"
