Music

I don't own a single John Mayer CD or even a single single...

I haven’t done the research on this, but I don’t imagine Vivaldi’s “Spring” concerto is the ringback song on your average rapper’s cell phone.But call Jordan Polovina and you’ll see pretty quickly why he and the rest of Whiskey Blanket are not your average rappers....

You know it’s an unusual Christmas concert when one of the composers is the fearsome atonal composer Arnold Schoenberg. But conductor Bahman Saless, who has...

Conductor Bahman Saless and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) have a couple of holiday traditions. Every year they honor the December holidays as ecumenically as...

If you missed New Year’s the first time, Planina offers you another chance to celebrate...

The next concert by the Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra will look backward, and forward, and outward. The program, titled “Classical Evolution,” will be presented...

Zuill Bailey loves watching the audience as he performs. Unlike pianists and other soloists with orchestra, Bailey, a cellist, sits facing the audience when he...

The live music scene in Tokyo (but not so much in smaller cities in Japan) works a little differently than it does here in...

For Gumbo Le Funque frontman and sax player Jason Justice, there is more to music than having a good time. Getting instruments to kids facing tough economic conditions and high-stakes school testing provides a crucial opportunity for experiential learning, he says. ...

Framed around a stomping, skeletal-funk guitar riff, the lead-off cut from Tommy Castro’s latest LP Method to My Madness strikes a curiously un-bluesy vibe,...

Violinist/conductor Peter Oundjian served as artistic advisor of the Colorado Music Festival (CMF) for the 2018 season, a position halfway between giving advice and...

Tone and nuance rule the day on Julian Lage’s last album, Modern Lore. A fancy trio rambles down the dusty roads of between-genre Americana...