Boston has made some formidable contributions to American life — revolution; academia; the Kennedys; the Roomba — so it’s hardly surprising that Beantown’s status as a longtime hub of Klezmer music ...

There’s a branch of musical discourse, typified by the neo-classical puritanism of Wynton Marsalis, that likes to distinguish between “real” jazz and “fake” jazz. The “real” or “genuine” or “authentic ...

As an opening salvo for last weekend’s Santa Barbara Symphony (SBS) program at the Granada, the orchestra plunged gamely and crisply into the bright, brisk fare of Mozart’s Overture to The Abduction ...

You only need to hear a few seconds of klezmer music to identify it as Jewish. With an exuberant clarinet, sometimes laughing, sometimes wailing, its distinctive sound is formed out of eastern ...