Author: Owen Cordle

Jessica Williams is regally tall, with large hands and long fingers. She plays the piano with little discernable effort, a hat trick that belies all the intricate counterpoint, walking bass lines, chordal clusters and melodic...

Paul Jeffrey worked his way through a box of new reeds and ceaseless adjustments of his tenor saxophone mouthpiece. But the music of the late pianist and composer Thelonious Monk was not to be fine-tuned Thursday night at Duke...