Jazz/Blues
Pulitzer-Prize Winner Michael Chabon Talks The Bats and Upcoming Release 'Demo 5:26:84'
Shara Worden (aka My Brightest Diamond) Opens Her Home to WQXR's Q2 Music for Spaces Episode
These past two weeks have been busy for enigmatic singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist Shara Worden, or My Brightest Diamond to some. This past Tuesday saw the release of her fourth album under her MBD moniker, This Is My Hand. Worden also recently completed a Baroque opera entitled, You Us We All. Justice for Jazz Artists: Trumpeter Jimmy Owens Performs "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" at New York City Council Meeting
A landmark institution that defined New York City and American music, city council officials met Wednesday for a hearing on jazz's plight...and trumpeter Jimmy Owens broke into song halfway through his testimony.
