Misha Mengelberg is one of the truly rare voices in improvised music, for he has added so much to the conceptualization of what makes jazz and improvisation tick... If one takes a swath of the most ...

The flood of fascinating CD reissues of marvelous old 78 RPM discs continues without interruption. The enterprising Pearl label in England has just released some, though unfortunately not all, of the ...

Misha Mengelberg was born in Kiev in 1935 - the son of a Dutch composer/conductor/pianist and a German harpist - but is a lifelong resident of Amsterdam, where he teaches counterpoint at the Sweelinck ...

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead remembers Mengelberg, who died Friday, as a "musical anarchist" who taught classical counterpoint and wrote dozens of catchy melodies. This is FRESH AIR. Dutch pianist, ...

Spring has arrived, all right, and here in Washington, D.C., it's been far too easy for us to listlessly stare out the window, not blogging, not posting more videos of Death Metal Satchmo... WDUQ's ...

The idea behind "Mengelberg and Mahler," Daniel Klein's solo drama currently playing at Shakespeare & Company in the Berkshires, is a potentially fascinating one. The title characters are Willem ...

LENOX, MASS. -- Art happens inside. The expression -- a performance, a painting or a song, let's say -- happens on the outside, but the artistic drive is interior. That makes it notoriously hard to ...

One of the most creative jazz pianists to emerge in the first phase of Europe’s breakaway from American styles in the 1960s In his last years the Dutch pianist, composer and improviser Misha ...