Music Monday Music: Duke Ellington, It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) by JOHN ADAMS • 10.24.2022 See also Nikk Ogasa, Here’s where jazz gets its swing (‘Nearly imperceptible delays in soloists’ timing contribute to the music’s signature rhythm’).
Music Monday Music: Vivaldi, Four Seasons, Autumn by JOHN ADAMS • 09.19.2022 So begins North America’s hauntingly and sublimely beautiful season, expressed musically by an Italian composer never so fortunate that he experienced our autumn — unmatched in all the world — for himself.