Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Music

How ‘Head Hunters’ Shook Up Jazz (and Herbie Hancock’s World)

The 1973 album proved that jazz could make a major impact on the modern pop mainstream. Its surviving musicians are reuniting for a Los Angeles concert this month. Source link

John Mayer on Being the Watch World’s Celebrity ‘Go-To Guy’

The singer and songwriter talks about working with Audemars Piguet, how it felt when his design debuted and a prediction on the next big thing on everyone’s wrists. Source link

Blondie’s Debbie Harry Taps Personal Style for Wildfang Collection

For a new collection with the brand Wildfang, the Blondie singer took inspiration from a personal wardrobe she cultivated by dressing “as daring as you could.” Source link

The World Is Still Catching Up to the Music of Hector Berlioz

The Romantic-era composer, the focus of this year’s Bard Music Festival, wrote works that sprang from a mind capable of thinking only in pipe dreams. Source link

How a ‘Dirty Gospel’ Minister Spends His Sundays

The Reverend Vince Anderson, a mainstay of the Brooklyn music scene, fills his day with worship in two languages, the Mets and a full hour of watering his 92 houseplants. Source link

Why the Runaways’ Jackie Fox Made a Rock ’n’ Roll Board Game

The teenage bassist of the Runaways cut her music career short in 1977. Rather than retell her story, she’s reimagined it as a board game, Rock Hard: 1977. Source link

A Death-Driven ‘Tristan und Isolde’ at the Bayreuth Festival

Thorleifur Orn Arnarsson’s production of “Tristan und Isolde” at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany is an excellently conducted puzzle of grim symbols. Source link

How Did Flavor Flav Become a Hype Man for the U.S. Women’s Water Polo Team?

The rapper has become a self-appointed hype man and benefactor to the U.S. women’s team in Paris. He plans to keep the poolside party going into 2028. Source link

An 18th-Century Phenom Arrives at Lincoln Center

The Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center will play Marianna Martines’s Symphony in C, a milestone for a composer whose music mostly fell silent after her death. Source link
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