Czech guitarist Petr Zelenka brings an edgy warmth to jazz that isn't heard too often these days. There are occasions when the guitarist recalls Jim Hall, whose harmonically advanced yet melodically rooted lines not only quelled the abstractions of Chico Hamilton and Jimmy Giuffre but spiked the pretty sparkles of Paul Desmond and Bill Evans. And yet, Zelenka also brings an unpredictable European sensibility to his music that is reminiscent of many ECM productions--that sense of wandering off from the rhythmic, melodic and predictable path...

Drummer Ben Hall and cellist Hans Buetow have been frequent musical collaborators since their time at Bennington College in Vermont, USA, participating in various group settings that tread the boundaries between basement noise, free jazz and modern composition. Employing Oberlin graduate Chris Riggs' guitar work, the tandem has resuscitated Traum, a unit whose work sways from lower case experimental spaces to hyper explosions of free punk attitudes...

Le projet de loi sera examiné par l'Assemblée nationale à partir du 4 mars, a-t-on appris le 10 février.

La Ville de Paris a ouvert ce lieu culturel en février 2008 dans le quartier difficile de la Goutte-d'Or, le long du boulevard de la Chapelle.

L'ultime aménagement du château, à la veille de la Révolution, sera accessible à l'automne.

Les concerts du chanteur français ressemblent de plus en plus à des numéros de music-hall.

Beethoven et Bruckner, le 11 février, à Pleyel.

Une passionnante rétrospective à Paris révèle des oeuvres extravagantes, "honteuses", inconnues.

A singer, pianist and songwriter with an independent spirit, Ms. Dearie pursued a singular career that blurred the line between jazz and cabaret.

La chorégraphe tutoie le théâtre à partir d'une profusion de personnages lisant Lucrèce.

Ms. Bee became an overnight country music star at 13 with her 1952 hit version of the novelty song “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.”

The Orlando Consort was an ideal choice to contribute a concert related to the Metropolitan Museum’s current exhibition “Art and Love in Renaissance Italy.”

The Metropolitan Opera brought back this opera after 15 years in a performance stylishly conducted by Marco Armilliato.

There were no such hitches on Tuesday at Weill Recital Hall when members of the Ensemble ACJW played Janacek’s “Mladi,” a four-movement work.

On Monday, Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis played songs associated with Ray Charles, the artist who most credibly covered all the pertinent terrain: jazz, country, blues and gospel, along with R&B and soul.

Last weekend Ashley Capps, the organizer of Bonnaroo, put on the first edition of a major new three-day festival in Knoxville, Tenn.

The Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday announced a 2009-10 season notable for shrunken ambitions in a time of economic crisis.

Mr. López was the bassist and the heartbeat of the Cuban group Buena Vista Social Club.

On Monday, the Esterhazy Machine, a period-instrument group, played three Haydn baryton trios, and Jennifer Koh, the violinist, played thorny contemporary works.

Muzak Holdings, the maker of background music heard in elevators, has listed less than $50,000 in assets and faced debt from $100 million to $500 million.