This is FRESH AIR. Our jazz critic Kevin Whitehead has a review of a reissue by flute player Sam Most, who died in 2013. Kevin says Most was never very well-known, despite his influence on other jazz ...

Korean-born, Austria-based flute player Jasmine Choi shares her range in performances with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra this week. As she plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Flute Concerto No. 2 and her ...

Jazz is dead, or so the perennial phrase goes, spoken by the jaded olds. And year after year, young artists prove them wrong. That much was evident from the first song, “Flute / Overture,” with ...

The flute is having a moment, says our music reporter Giovanni Russonello. André 3000, of OutKast fame, released his album “New Blue Sun” late last year. On it, he traded rap and his distinctive voice ...

Avant-garde musicians, harpist Stephan Haluska, who champions cutting edge music as director of Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project, and flutist Robert Dick, have been playing together since 2022, ...

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