Scott was the composer whose madcap 1930s music -- a dizzying comic mix of classical music, Ellington jungle jazz and Jewish klezmer, among other things -- was a prime ingredient on the soundtracks to ...

The malicious coronavirus pandemic that brought most of the world to its knees in 2020 has spawned the use of several reanimated words including "virtual," whose meaning is "sort of here but not ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — It’s days away from Christmas Day. Oddly, during such a festive week there is a lack of entertainment available. One reason, I suppose, is promoters think that people are busy ...

Bonsanti has a terrific ear for color and balance… he elicits some ear-ravishing textures… and his soloists on this CD—both the regulars and the stand-ins—are nothing short of terrific… What Bonsanti ...

The Nordic Heritage Museum is opening a new exhibit this week that celebrates the work of Austrian-born, 1920s designer Josef Frank. If you value at all William Morris, the animated film Yellow ...

Roderick James McLeod: Jazz-lover. Cartoonist. Unitarian. Torontonian. Born May 7, 1933, in Toronto; died Dec. 2, 2019, in Toronto, of heart failure; aged 86. Roderick James McLeod was the third of ...

Walter Lantz animated a short sequence for the Universal feature King Of Jazz (released 3/30/30). The sequence is notable as the first two-color Technicolor cartoon released in the sound era (though ...