Richard S. Ginell

The jazz legend has two new boxed sets, with much more still to come.

With loads of bells and whistles, the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park promises to be a nearly perfect venue for the energized orchestra.

Good performances of early pieces by a composer who later forged his own distinctive language.

Paintings were the inspiration for Thea Musgrave’s Trumpet Concerto and, of course, for a Mussorgsky/Ravel classic, at the Hollywood Bowl.

He’s one of the giants of the jazz world, but he’s never settled for just one genre. SFCV has your guide to the pianist/composer’s staggering output.

The group’s latest album captures some of the trends in new music now.

The full cycle recording project nears completion with this release of early and late works.

The latest of the composer’s recordings features his earliest “Aeolian sound world” piece.

Reimagine is a delightful romp through contemporary miniatures in a wild range of styles, each a unique response to an earlier piano trifle.

The “classical, avant-punk” violin duo covers a lot of ground on three new CDs, from Brahms to the thorniest of contemporary composition.