In April 1974, a year after the break-up of Tomasz Stańko's first great quintet, Zbigniew Seifert gave his first solo violin concert. Another solo gig, two years later, produced the LP Solo Violin ...

The violinist Zbigniew Seifert was one of Poland's best-known jazz players, who died tragically early, a victim of cancer at the age of only 32. One of the aims of this competition is to maintain ...

Wynton Marsalis' rare musical versatility has long been a beacon in the worlds of jazz and classical music. Now the Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer brings those ...

Any new recording from the spectacular saxophonist James Carter is pretty much guaranteed to produce fireworks. But his new album, Caribbean Rhapsody, is his grandest work yet: It's a collaboration ...

This interview was originally broadcast on Oct. 14, 2010. Jazz musician Vijay Iyer started playing the violin when he was 3, but when he was 4 or 5, he wanted to play another instrument: the piano.