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French composer/reed player Sylvain Rifflet is recognized not only for his work in jazz, but also in film music. With his current quartet, he has broadened his palette to include world, rock and avant ...

While most people think of the alphabet as a collection of letters which act as the building blocks for words, Sylvain Rifflet probably isn't one of them. The French reed multi-instrumentalist seems ...

Fueled in part by the ready money and expanded audiences delivered by the dot-com boom, a vibrant community of creative young jazz musicians coalesced in San Francisco from the late '80s through the ...

Paul Metsa, also known as “the other great folksinger from Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron Range”. Growing up in Virginia MN, he lived about 22 miles away from Bob Dylan’s home in Hibbing MN. Early in his ...