The man behind the music in more than 75 films including Star Wars had hinted he might be ready to retire. He said recently if something came along that caught his fancy, he would “keep […]
EXCLUSIVE: Laura Karpman was drip-fed jazz notes when she was a baby. Her mother’s turn-table featured a playlist that included Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Wes Montgomery and Thelonious Monk, the virtuoso pianist, whose music informs and […]
The musical theme for Hayao Miyazaki’s new, and likely final, film is a question — just like the film’s original Japanese title. “How Do You Live?” was (regrettably) renamed “The Boy and the Heron” for […]
German composer Ben Böhmer has released an ethereal new single on Ninja Tune. “One Last Call,” featuring Felix Raphael and co-written by Oh Wonder, is Böhmer’s first solo output since 2021’s Begin Again, an emotional […]
What does an old adventurer have to offer a modern world that seems to have moved on? That’s the existential question posed to Indiana Jones, the beloved archaeologist immortalized by Harrison Ford across four decades, […]
New York composer Lea Bertucci will release a new album on her own Cibachrome Editions. Of Shadow and Substance explores dissonance, drone, and dynamics with two new long-form compositions. The record opens with “Vapours,” whose […]
As a student at Goldsmiths I was out practically every night attending concerts and was at nearly every important premiere – Ferneyhough, Maxwell Davies, Birtwistle, Boulez, Reich, LeFanu – mostly male composers, it is true. […]
Carla Bley, the American jazz composer-pianist celebrated for boldly avant-garde work as well as her uplifting and beautiful takes on the genre’s mainstream, has died aged 87. Her death was announced by longtime partner and […]
Brazilian composer and pianist João Donato accepts the best Latin jazz album award at the 11th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, on Nov. 11, 2010, in Las Vegas. Julie Jacobson/AP hide caption toggle caption Julie Jacobson/AP […]
Mortality. Nothing quite like the prospect of it to bring laser focus to the mind. I wrote previously of how my incurable cancer diagnosis has compelled me to plan a celebratory concert of my orchestral […]
Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho was always searching for new timbres of instrumental sound. Raphael Gaillarde/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Raphael Gaillarde/Getty Images Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho was always searching for new timbres of instrumental […]
Photo Credit: DeCombray / CC by 3.0 Succession composer Nicholas Britell inks a deal with Secretly Distribution, releasing the series’ Season 4 soundtrack just hours after the finale aired. As Secretly Distribution marks its 25-year-anniversary as […]
Ahmad Jamal, a pianist, composer and arranger whose innovative, chamber jazz style had a powerful impact on his contemporaries while gaining widespread popularity via such recordings as his bestselling interpretation of “Poinciana,” has died, according […]
Composer/musician Ryuichi Sakamoto has died. On Sunday, a representative for Avex Entertainment announced that the Japanese music star had passed away on 28 March following a battle with cancer. He was 71. “We are deeply […]
Ryuichi Sakamoto, the highly influential Japanese pianist, composer, and electronic music producer, has died at 71, Kyodo News reports. Sakamoto had first revealed a throat cancer diagnosis in 2014, which went into remission after successful treatment. […]
Oscar-winning composer Justin Hurwitz has found himself back in the awards race this season, having garnered both a Golden Globe win and an Oscar nomination for his lavish Babylon score. Creating music that complemented the […]
Wayne Shorter, a saxophonist and composer who was universally acknowledged as one of the most original and influential jazz artists of the last six decades, died Thursday at 89. Shorter, who worked closely with Art […]
Gerald Fried, the Oscar-nominated composer known for scoring the original Star Trek series and Roots, has died at the age of 95. Fried died on Friday, February 17th, of pneumonia, according to The Hollywood Reporter. […]
The latest album by Heinali is a rather beautiful piece created from field recordings made around his home city – recordings from rail stations, the sound of traffic and birdsong, the dripping of water in […]
Photo Credit: Marco Rosanova / CC by 3.0 A dominant force in American pop music for over 50 years, songwriter, composer, and producer Burt Bacharach died of natural causes at age 94. Legendary songwriter, arranger, […]