entertainment - "music"

Guitar and oud player Amos Hoffman =, who has been performing and recording as a member of Avishai Cohen’s band for more than two decades, will release Evolution, his debut CD on Cohen’s Razdaz Recordz, on June 23.Since relocating to his native Israel in 1999 after years on the new york jazz scene, Hoffman has spent the time since the release of his last CD (2006’s Na’ama, on the Israeli label Magda) further pursuing his passion for combining jazz with Middle Eastern music. The result of this multi-cultural fusion is  ...

San Francisco (California), USA - Afrobeat is dense, funky, intricately-layered, groove-heavy music with an intrinsic message - delivered through polyrhythmic beats, the sweat of the dancers, and the power of words. This summer that message will reverberate through California, when the Afrofunk Festival returns after three consecutive years of sold-out shows July 9-26. The Afrofunk Festival was born in 2005, when Kenyan singer Victor Sila joined forces with Liberian DJ Jeremiah Kpoh. Cresting the wave of the international Afrobeat revival, which shined a media spotlight on bands like Antibalas and artists like Femi Kuti, the AFF tapped into the vibrancy of the San...

And while songwriter Joni Mitchell's earlier canvases had their moments, her current works feel generic. Her gift is in her music, Sarah Milroy writes

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - What do you do after becoming the first African-American rap group to win an Academy Award for best song? If you're Three 6 Mafia, you stay focused on what brought you to the game in the first place: music.

Everything's coming up Tonys Sunday, and peering into my crystal ball (actually, at the ballot), I see an enchanted evening for musicals set on islands.

Legit reviews: The bare-bones production of Melvin Bragg and Howard Goodall's 'The Hired Man,' playing for a fortnight at 59E59, can be viewed as a blueprint for what might be a remarkable musical.

Her current role in the Broadway hit musical 'Xanadu' has earned her a Tony nomination for best actress. Now she's taking her talents off the big stage and into the recording studio.