Michael Dessen Trio: “Resonating Abstractions”
by Dan Lehner Photo Credit: mdessen.com Explaining programmatic music is always a tricky balance. Tell your audience too much about the story behind your piece and it’ll
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Newport Jazz Festival 2012: Sunday Recap
As Sunday's lineup at Newport was even more stacked than Saturday, the temporal conflicts of the festival became all-too-clear. I was faced with a hard triple booking: Maria Schneider Orchestra,