Ishmael Ali wears many musical hats: composer, guitarist (in the bands Je’raf and Errata) and co-founder of a recording space in North Lawndale. But it’s his most recent instrument — cello — that has ...

There are many places one expects to hear cellos: in orchestras to provide low-register harmonies, in pop or rock songs to invoke melancholy moods and so on. One place you might not expect to find ...

Classical cellist Michael Kevin Jones and pianist John Bryden, no stranger to our shores, played a concert at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. It was billed as a meditation and the evening’s ...