Lara Pellegrinelli

Lara Pellegrinelli appears in the following:

These photos are shedding new light on how fireflies interact with the world

Friday, August 12, 2022

In the summer, from dusk until the moon rises, photographer Pete Mauney finds his photos' subjects along quiet stretches of highway, in hidden pockets of woods and under power lines.

Comment

This Hudson Valley photographer takes mesmerizing pictures of fireflies every summer

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

In the summer, from dusk until the moon rises, Mauney finds his photos' subjects along quiet stretches of farmstand highway, in abandoned fields, hidden pockets of woods and under power lines.

Comment

Composer and performer Ingram Marshall dies at age 80

Thursday, June 02, 2022

Visionary musician Ingram Marshall has died at the age of 80; a leading figure of the West Coast avant-garde music scene, Marshall forged unusual connections between minimalism and electronic music.

Comment

Equal At Last? Women In Jazz, By The Numbers

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Half of the top 10 spots in 2019's NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll went to women. But a deeper look at the data from across the poll's lifetime complicates claims about women's equality in jazz.

Comment

Soul On Soul: Allison Miller And Derrick Hodge On Honoring Mary Lou Williams

Friday, September 13, 2019

At this year's Monterey Jazz Festival, drummer Allison Miller and bassist Derrick Hodge will pay tribute to Williams, revisiting her work from the 1960s and '70s with imaginative instrumentation.

Comment

Esperanza Spalding Is The 21st Century's Jazz Genius

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

The ways in which Spalding's music is the most radical are perhaps the most easily overlooked: how, through her singing and playing, she challenges gender norms across styles.

Comment

Lorraine Gordon, Guardian Of Legendary Jazz Club, Dies At 95

Saturday, June 09, 2018

The owner of the revered Village Vanguard in New York City — and a champion of generations of jazz musicians, including Thelonious Monk — died Saturday at age 95.

Comment

Spelman College Quietly Eliminates One Of The Country's Few Jazz Programs For Women

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

The selective, historically black women's college in Atlanta has cut the college's once-esteemed jazz program, a rarity within the traditionally male-dominated genre.

Comment

Eighty Years Of Master Educator Ellis Marsalis

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

If anyone has earned the nickname Pops, it's Ellis Marsalis.

As jazz's best-known father figure, the senior Marsalis has four noted musical offspring: Branford, Wynton, Delfeayo and Jason. But if you consider all the musicians he's taught or mentored, his clan is even more extensive, diverse and influential.

I talked ...

Comment

A Guitarist Starts Anew, Except For This Old Song

Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Matt Stevens' recorded debut as a leader was supposed to have come out back in 2011.

"I had a record that was completely done," the guitarist says. "But circumstances change, and by the time it came to release it, I wanted to do something totally fresh."

"Emergence" — heard here ...

Comment

O Brothers: Drummers Brian and Brady Blade

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

If the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, sometimes two apples will land on similar turf. Brian Blade has been Wayne Shorter's drummer for several years and leads his own project called The Fellowship Band. His older brother Brady Blade is perhaps best known for ...

Comment

The Odd Jobs Of Dave King

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Among musicians, drummers are the explorers, the tinkerers, the polymaths. They don't just play one instrument, but dozens at the very least.

With so many jobs to hold down at the same time, drummer Dave King — best known as a member of the trio The Bad Plus — ...

Comment

A DIY Guide To The History Of Women In Jazz

Friday, May 10, 2013

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has issued a proclamation declaring Friday "Women in Jazz Day" — an attempt at cultural reform that's bound to enjoy the same resounding success as banning oversized sodas. Which is to say: Nice try, Mr. Mayor.

Women in jazz certainly deserve to be ...

Comment

Music's New 'Real Ambassadors'

Friday, February 22, 2013

Soft diplomacy is a buzz phrase these days when it comes to U.S. relations abroad. But it's a tactic that goes back at least to 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent the high-spirited trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie to the Middle East. It was the first time the U.S. government had ...

Comment

Look & Listen Festival: Closing Night

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Cued Up brings you the final installment of the 10th annual Look & Listen Festival this Sunday, at 2 p.m.. You'll hear a world premiere by composer and percussionist David Cossin, Mis...

Comment

Bard Conservatory Orchestra Performs at Local Prison

Friday, December 04, 2009

It’s not uncommon for musicians to perform as public service—in schools, hospitals, and nursing homes. But students in the Bard Conservatory Orchestra recently found themselves onstage in an unusual venue: a maximum security prison. Lara Pellegrinelli reports on their concert, the first ever to feature ...

Comment

Obama Burnout

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Barack Obama found early support for his presidential bid in Harlem, but not everyone there will be celebrating the inauguration. Proud as they are of the first African American president, some think it’s time to focus on more important things—like the morning after. Lara Pellegrinelli ...

Comment

South Indian Classical Music Festival

Friday, December 19, 2008

For many Americans, Indian classical music is synonymous with Ravi Shankar the sitar virtuoso who inspired the Beatles decades ago.

But here in New York, Indian classical music is alive and well.

Earlier this week, around two-dozen students of South Indian classical music performed for family and ...

Comment

Celebrating Carnatic Music

Friday, December 19, 2008

For many music lovers, Indian classical music is synonymous with Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who inspired the Beatles decades ago. But here in New York, Indian classical music is alive and well. Every year, around two-dozen students of South Indian classical music performed for ...

Comment

English Channel Swim in NYC

Monday, October 27, 2008

The first woman to swim the English Channel was a 21-year-old New Yorker named Gertrude Ederle. Three years ago, one of her old training routes was revived -- a swim from Battery Park, at the tip of Manhattan, to Sandy Hook, New Jersey. It's a ...

Comment