Hearts were left broken from the Hell Gate to the Golden Gate Friday morning as the death of legendary singer Tony Bennett was announced.Bennett, Astoria’s most famous son, best known
With 14 British Jazz Awards to his name, along with an MBE, honorary doctorate and several lifetime achievement prizes, Martin Taylor is a guitarist with few peers in the UK jazz world over the last half century.
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Mark O’Connor emerged in the 1970s as a prodigy fiddler who won just about every contest he entered from age 12 on. That grounding in traditional music opened up into the most expansive and outlandishly accomplished career in the history of the violin, with major accomplishments and acclaim in bluegrass, country session playing, jazz, rock and classical music. The foundations of the story are now laid out in rich detail in the first volume of O’Connor’s memoir. He covers some of the highlights in a talk with Craig Havighurst.