In the words of David Bowie: "Changes." The Metropolitan Jazz Octet's two previous albums teem with unadulterated jazz. Paul Marinaro is a hard-swinging, expressive baritone steeped in the Great ...

New Jazz Composers Octet: Walkin' The Line. by Mark F. Turner March 1, 2003. From the sound of it, the future of the large group ensemble is clearly in good hands with the New Jazz Composers Octet, a ...

New Jazz Composers Octet: The Elite Eight There aren't a lot of octets in jazz. But since 1996, a collective ensemble has been developing its own ambitious brand of jazz articulation, ...

The Metropolitan Jazz Octet put a new spin on some of David Bowie’s classic songs such as “Let’s Dance,” “Space Oddity” and “Changes.” And here with more on how this all came ...

Page’s birthday: Salute Led Zeppelin’s hits as tribute act Kashmir marks the birthday of the band’s iconic founder for the Jimmy Page Birthday Bash at the Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main St., St ...

The Metropolitan Jazz Octet, in partnership with Paul Marinaro, are reimagining some of Bowie’s classics with a new show titled “The Bowie Project. ...

The year 1955 was a tough one for Frank Sinatra, although it might not have looked that way to the casual observer. By then, ...

“Whatever happened to having fun with jazz?” asked Dave Pell on Friday night, shortly before he went on stage with his octet at the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn in North Hollywood. Then ...

Bassist Ben Wolfe long ago mastered the art of playing small-ensemble jazz. Yet he likes to think big. His 2004 release, “My Kinda Beautiful,” merged a jazz octet with an eight-piece string ...