“He is a true master, who has redefined the role of the accordion in jazz, dance, world, pop, rock, world and classical music.” The 77-year-old legend, who came out of performance retirement for the ...

San Diego has plenty of music festivals, but none are as stylistically diverse as The Carlsbad Music Festival. Friday and Saturday, I heard old time fiddling from Clinton Davis, the genial solo guitar ...

When most people think of the accordion, jazz isn't the first style of music that comes to mind - maybe polka, zydeco, conjunto or a bar mitzvah band, but not jazz. Think again. In the hands of Manny ...

The Ben Rosenblum Trio joins jazz vocalist Laura Anglade for a Dec. 4 candlelight concert presented in collaboration with the ...

When it comes to Texas music, the guitar gets all the attention, thanks to a long line of six-string immortals such as T-Bone Walker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Gary Clark Jr. But frankly, the instrument ...

The master of the Tex-Mex accordion Leonardo "Flaco" Jimenez, whose tradition-drenched sound came to define conjunto or Tejano music of South Texas, has died. Throughout a career that spanned more ...

Whether you know Syoma Klochko from her work as the unpredictable percussionist for free-jazz collective Bongus or as the stalwart guitarist for ska/reggae army Florida Man, you’re going to be ...

When you think of accordion, you think of European polka or folk music. Hanzhi Wang wants you to think of Bach and Piazzolla. On Sunday, Oct. 13, the China-born Wang brings her accordion to Leo Rich ...

San Antonio: Eva Ybarra, the Accordion Queen, poses for a portrait. After years without broad recognition, she is finally getting her due. Credit: Texas Observer / Ivan Armando Flores Eva Ybarra plays ...

Louisiana’s soundtrack is alive 24/7. Join us on a journey through the birthplace of jazz and the musical highlights of this ...