Maria Pia De Vito is a standout in the contemporary European jazz scene. She began her on-stage activity in 1976 as a singer and player (plectra, percussions, piano) in research groups committed to ...

Italian jazz, world and classical singer Maria Pia De Vito has a penchant for British pianists. Before hooking up with Huw Warren, in the late 1990s/early 2000s she made three albums with John Taylor, ...

Gino Negri, humorist and composer from Milan, died in 1991. He wrote Il diario dell'assassinata finding the inspiration in the life of Carlo Gesualdo, Principe di Venosa, one of the leading Italian ...

In the end, it's jazz musicians who will save the world from the genre police. For proof, check out this genre-busting reinterpretation of Italian opera composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's music.

Ted Nugent, “Ultralive Ballisticrock – Deluxe Edition” (Frontiers Records, two discs plus DVD). No, Ted. You can’t do what you’re trying to do here. You can’t go from Motor City disorderly musical ...