Email Author Rick Mason

2008 Stories by Rick Mason

• Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

  published January 16, 2008

  Jazz classicist Wynton Marsalis has been director of the in-house jazz band at New York's Lincoln Center since the early '90s, often packing it... More >>

• Todd Rundgren

  published January 16, 2008

  To casual fans, the cult of Todd Rundgren may seem a bit ludicrous. He scored a few pop hits in the late '60s and early '70s, including... More >>

• Slide Huxtable

  published January 9, 2008

  This majorly Minnesotan jazz quartet performs only irregularly since trombonist Mark Miller now spends most of his time in New York playing for... More >>

• Slide Huxtable

  published January 9, 2008

  This majorly Minnesotan jazz quartet performs only irregularly since trombonist Mark Miller now spends most of his time in New York playing for... More >>

• Angelique Kidjo

  published January 9, 2008

  In many ways, Angelique Kidjo is the quintessential world-music artist. A native of the West African nation of Benin, she has lived in Paris... More >>

• Bird and the Bee

  published January 9, 2008

  How apt that one of this year's coolest buzz bands is the Bird and the Bee, which happily flit through some of the hippest pop confections of... More >>