Michael Leonhart

Michael Leonhart could be a chameleon.He’s a trumpeter who composes for both small and large ensembles, even as he serves as an arranger and producer (and…

Also: new music by Al Foster, Jeremy Udden, Aaron Novik and Keiko Matsui.Michael Leonhart Orchestra, “Shimmy Shimmy Ya/Glaciers of Ice”Almost precisely…

Nels Cline has earned his place as a guitar hero for our times, with a track record stretching back four decades and a marquee gig with Wilco. But if you…

One day, reading a story to my son Nate, who was 2 at the time, I asked if he'd thought about what he wanted to be when he grew up. He gave me a studied…

Dizzy Gillespie, “Long Long Summer”I listened to hours and hours of Dizzy Gillespie over the weekend — not an unprecedented act, though it carried a…