From the sound of it, the future of the large group ensemble is clearly in good hands with the New Jazz Composers Octet, a combination of old school horns and creative young jazz musicians. The NJCO ...

Album Features 12 Original Compositions Played by the Northern California Octet in Collaboration with Innovative String ...

Rather than going with the common straight-ahead formula of head-solos-head, the New Jazz Composers Octet prefers ensemble counterpoint in which agreed-upon changes add a sense of the exotic. Shifting ...

Since the early days of Donald Trump’s political rise, mental health experts have argued over the ethics of diagnosing the once-and-wannabe-again POTUS from a distance. There is one stark precedent, ...