April 2018

Queensland Conservatory jazz singers Adelina Martinez and Merinda Dias Jayasinha are among six Australian singers shortlisted for the prestigious Generations in Jazz vocal grant. The scholarship is part of the annual…

Most people think of New Orleans or New York when they think of American jazz, but Miami also has its fair share of hot spots where listeners can watch local and international artists perform. skate, hard bop, mainstream,…

The old adage that opposites attract could not be more apt in the case of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis armstrong, whose album collaborations for Verve Records in the late 1950s resulted in some of the most beautiful and…

Wednesday April 11ListenArthurs, Dublin, 8 p.m., € 10, listen.ieComposer Dylan Rynhart's monthly music fair is as eclectic and generous an evening of music as you are likely to find in…

Bowhead whales have many unusual qualities. They can live 200 years. They have the largest mouths of all living animals, but only eat very small ocean creatures through a filtered-power process. They have the thickest fat, or greasy…

A bowhead whale surfaces in the Fram Strait in northwest Norway. (Photo by the Norwegian Polar Institute / Kit Kovacs) A research team led by an oceanographer from the University of Washington has released the largest…