Recorded in 1958, Jazz in Silhouette stands as an overlooked masterpiece, a work that shows Ra not as a mere curiosity or backwater galaxy, but as a major creative force in the jazz universe, a center ...

These span the recalibrated swing-band tropes of Jazz In Silhouette (Saturn, 1959), a perfect choice ... are Ra's recordings in classic piano-trio format, playing an acoustic instrument rather than ...

Jazz is strange enough for some listeners. Dig a little deeper and it gets ever so bizarre. Throughout the music's history, particular instruments have risen to challenge of playing improvised music.

EskewDumezRipple notes that the museum’s formal qualities are inspired by jazz instruments. Its envelope is a nod to the body of a guitar, while its silhouette more broadly takes cues from the ...

Davu Seru and Jamal R. Moore put their soul into the jazz music they played at the Art and Literature Laboratory Friday night. They used a variety of instruments to make their music with Seru on drums ...

If jazz is about free-flowing expression, do the instruments have to be Western? In a cross-cultural experiment, a group of young Chinese artists musicians based in New York is testing the ...