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The sound world that Loraine James creates often seems pinched by a certain sadness or psychological strain. That pervasive quality as well as a mottled and vaporous sound palette can make her feel like a somewhat difficult or uneasy artist to approach. Yet time and again whenever I take the plunge, what I find and come away with is music...

When a celebrated figure tries their hand at a new field only to prove a resounding success, do we simply throw up our hands and toast the latest multi-hyphenate or do we wonder - perhaps with a stench or residue of bitterness if the thought is expressed aloud - whether they might in fact have missed their true calling? On...

This week the drummer and bandleader Johnathan Blake lingers lightly over the life of Ana Grace Márquez-Greene, the daughter of the saxophonist Jimmy Greene and flautist Nelba Márquez-Greene, who died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting almost a decade ago. Conjuring her lively presence and the blessing of her birth, Blake pays a form of tribute to his...