Robert Hood, DJ Koze, and Anthony 'Shake' Shakir will also play the annual Detroit festival.

Audience told Vivaldi recital must stop abruptly to respect monument's closing time Sunday evening in one of the world's most impressive buildings – the Roman Pantheon, built almost 2,000 years ago. A sextet from Russia is playing Vivaldi, accompanied by a choir of four. They have just reached the end of a movement when, to the musicians' evident astonishment, an attendant com...

This set’s title suggests small strands coming together to form a greater whole, which is indeed an important aspect of Bill Dixon’s conception. Yet tapestries are inert, and Dixon’s music is not. It might move slowly much of the time, but it most certainly moves; it’s a study in movement sans rhythm. Pieces like “Motorcycle ’66: Reflections and Ruminations&rdqu...

Guitarist Kenny Burrell remains one of the few living jazz giants to emerge from the hard bop movement of the mid-1950s. Set to turn 79 this summer [2010], Burrell still occasionally performs, when he isn't too busy with his position as Head of Jazz Studies at UCLA, including a week at Yoshi's that was culled into 75th Birthday Bash Live! (Blue Note, 2006). Prime: Live at the Downtown Ro...

Handsome Harry is the latest film by Bette Gordon, whose 1983 feature Variety remains a signal work of the early American "indie" movement. Heading an impressive ensemble cast, Jamey Sheridan (The Ice Storm, Syriana) portrays the title role -- a divorced man, alienated from his grown son, whose life is defined by a number of casual relationships but no intimate ones. A loner by choice, Harry is fo...

Made In Jamaica is a powerful and intimate portrait of the leaders of the reggae movement. It is also the story of how an island nation of only three million people channel poverty, desperation, hedonism and the harshness of their existence into a politically conscious, joyful and spiritual music with a universal reach – a celebration of life in the Kingston ghetto.

Ogawa/Stott/Tokyo SO/Otomo (BIS) A pianist himself, Graham Fitkin has written a copious amount of piano music for one or more players. The main piece here is his 2002 concerto for two pianos, Circuit, which was composed for Kathryn Stott and Noriko Ogawa. It illustrates Fitkin's fondness for pithy single-word titles and his tendency towards producing single-movement works. The concerto p...

AP - Peter Gabriel has always been an experimental artist. He pioneered the progressive rock movement in the 1960s with his band Genesis, explored African rhythms with his solo work, and branched into world music later in his career.

Slate: The prime example of what I’m talking about is perhaps the most famous piece ever written: Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata. Hector Berlioz called its murmuring, mournful first movement, “one of those poems that human language does not know how to interpret.” At the beginning, Beethoven directs the performer to hold down the sustain pedal through the whole ...

Olympic great comforts racer after disappointment in Vancouver.By Katie Uhlaender Photo: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images Sport No matter what the results are for an athlete in the Olympic Games, to participate in the Olympic movement is indescribable. To hear "USA" screamed by not only your family but also by other nations' people who you have touched and inspired is an experience that truly tea...