While modern jazz can enlist many timbres, the accordion is limited to a distinctive sound that everyone remembers. From distant memories of wedding bands, we recall the instrument in its ...

With our brains set on “shuffle,” programmed now to process (if not to crave) a constant barrage of random sounds and images, a quartet such as the Four Bags no longer seems like the desperately jokey ...

Art Van Damme died on February 15th 2010 after being ill with pneumonia for several weeks. A Memorial to this great accordion jazz legend is now online and you can add your Tribute to his Tribute Wall ...

Accordionist and composer Julien Labro and member of the band Hot Club of Detroit, spent some time talking with me about his life and music career and his rare choice of instrument-the accordion.

The profound and lowly accordion keeps threatening to bust out in the open, to conquer its reputation as an esoteric and perhaps outmoded musical tool. It hasn’t quite happened yet, but it’s not for ...

The accordion isn’t exactly one of the more common instruments in jazz. Yet in the context of the genre-shifting mix of New York’s Claudia Quintet, the accordion sounded so natural at REDCAT on ...

If Argentine composer and performer Astor Piazzolla didn't exist, the subgenre of "Nuevo Tango" — a mix of tango, classical and jazz — wouldn't, either, nor would this taster of accordion jazz.

Place the word “jazz” next to the word “accordion” and you have what most jazz fans would agree is an oxymoron. The sound, the style -- even the look -- of the instrument are far more commonly ...

Art Van Damme, a former Northridge resident known as the father of jazz accordion, has died. He was 89. The quintet leader known internationally for his swinging jazz accordion died Monday at a ...

In his 30-year career, French accordion virtuoso Richard Galliano has done what Astor Piazzolla did for the tango – rescued a traditional music – in this case the French musette – from the grip of ...

No one knows the accordion until they have heard a performance by Richard Galliano — a musician of staggering virtuosity who has created new horizons for an instrument seen in the past as the poor ...

Accordion maker Pennye Huval owns and runs Martin Cajun Accordions with her father in Lafayette Parish. Visitors to Jazz Fest will not only find Louisiana music and food, but also expert Louisiana ...