If you were to list the finest drummers in Central New York, you would barely get started before you got to the name Rick Compton. Best known now for his stint with guitar legend (and best-selling ...

The media and popular impact of different musical areas and their players is often a challenging mystery to unravel. Many authors suffer from a significant imbalance between their media exposure and ...

Some people aren’t cut out for management. Handling egos and divergent interests to keep a group of people moving toward a shared, if ever-evolving goal isn’t easy, and Delvon Lamarr wanted no part of ...

In October 1960, Gil Evans took a large band into the Jazz Gallery, a New York club that had opened earlier in the year at 80 St. Marks Place. It would be a six-week run, culminating in Evans's ...