It was the 50th anniversary of not only the most enduring but the most popular TV entertainment program of our lives, Saturday Night Live. The show opened with Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter signing Simon’s “Homeward Bound,”…

As seen on The EarRelevant Reader, 23 February, 2025 Jazz, by its very nature, is complex, and improvisation is the defining characteristic of jazz. That combination makes the music challenging enough to play, but add the condition…

In anticipation of the 2025 Valentine’s weekend edition of the annual Emory University Jazz Fest, we talked with Gary Motley, the founding director of Emory’s Jazz Studies program, which includes an annual Emory Jazz Fest, held this…