Dan Lehner, Author at Feast of Music

Medeski, Martin and Wood with Nels Cline at the Blue Note

By Dan Lehner Medeski, Martin and Wood have made a long-standing career out of making endlessly fascinating music with […]

by Dan Lehner Photo Credit: mdessen.com Explaining programmatic music is always a tricky balance. Tell your audience

by Dan Lehner By now, bassist Christian McBride’s Inside Straight has pretty well established itself as the leading exponent of swinging

As Sunday's lineup at Newport was even more stacked than Saturday, the temporal conflicts of the festival became all-too-clear. I

by Dan Lehner Even if you’ve never set foot on the historic grounds of the Newport Jazz Festival (like me),

By Dan Lehner You won't find photos of any current or previous performances of drummer/composer John Hollenbeck's "The Drum Major

The zombie revolution continues with the third annual Undead Music Festival, presented by BOOM Collective and Search & Restore. The

by Daniel Lehner In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, saxophonist Ben Wendel seemed perplexed that people

by Daniel Lehner At his core, bassist/vocalist/composer Matt Siffert is a singer-songwriter type. However, what made his band’s first