By Frank J. Oteri I've always been emotionally and artistically drawn to the West Coast, but I'm not completely convinced that I'm drawn to a specifically "Californian" aesthetic, since I'm doubtful that such generalizations are possible.

… Marilyn Nonken in interview and performing Autumn and Winter, from Liza Lim’s Four Seasons (after Cy Twombly), on KUHF’s Front Row programme.

Susan Boyle has made U.K. chart history. The former Britain’s Got Talent contestant sold over 410,000 copies of her debut album I Dreamed a Dream in its first week of release, making it the fastest-selling album of 2009 as well earning the biggest first-week sales of any album in U.K. chart...

On November 24, 2009, America lost Hale Smith whose works musically intertwined the dialectic between African American identity and European traditions.

This week, we celebrate Thanksgiving here in America, and we’d like to give thanks to everyone who reads the Jamz every week. We do this for you and hopefully you’ve all found some decent groups throughout the year. We’ll be rounding up our faves in a couple weeks and there are still two spots open...

Classical cellist Matt Haimovitz has been astounding audiences –- and confounding critics –- with his edgy, high tech "Figment" tour and album. In his own words, Matt talks with AMG about embracing non-traditional venues, new technology and his collaboration with new music composer Du Yun.

No.1 in a probably infinite series. It builds into a whole universe of C major – like a casino. Toby Spence, on performing Lully’s Te Deum in the Royal Palace at Versailles.

Its title aside (which suggests that Hoagy Carmichael was some distant forerunner of Jackson Browne or Dar Williams, a case that would be both difficult and a little absurd to make), there’s no doubt that First of the Singer Songwriters: Key Cuts 1924-1946, a four-disc, 101-track collection from...

Everyone remember Sally Shapiro, the icy Swedish disco duo? They had a couple albums that were blogged to death, including one that was released this year. Well, if you read the small print on their records, you’ll see the name Roger Gunnarson as the composer of many songs, including “Anorak...