On Friday night at SFJAZZ's Miner Auditorium, Paquito D'Rivera walked out smiling, a clarinet at his side and seven decades of stagecraft in his pocket. The Cuban-born NEA Jazz Master had long argued ...

The master of the Tex-Mex accordion Leonardo "Flaco" Jimenez, whose tradition-drenched sound came to define conjunto or Tejano music of South Texas, has died. Throughout a career that spanned more ...

The late Ken Hopkins amassed a huge private collection of his beloved instruments Known to many throughout Europe as "the accordion man" – Ken Hopkins from County Down dedicated decades of his life to ...

Going for a song — one of the world’s biggest private collections of accordions is set to go under the hammer in Belfast. They belonged to Comber man Ken Hopkins, affectionately nicknamed ‘Accordion ...

A North Eugene High School student crosses the stage with a beaming smile at the Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration. The accordion strapped across her torso is nearly half her size, but ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The music of Will Holshouser defies easy categorization. Streaming services have variously filed his albums as jazz, folk, even easy listening. There's more than a ...

JOHNSON: For many music fans, the accordion will bring to mind the music of the Celtic punk rockers The Pogues, and Holshouser touches on the Irish traditions on "Reel To Reel," a tune written in part ...

It’s truly impressive when you can listen to one musician for more than 40 years and still hear something new. Paquito D’Rivera has been a major figure in the worlds of modern jazz, afro cuban jazz, ...

An ancient Chinese quote from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) beautifully states, "Strings are not as good as bamboo flutes, and bamboo flutes are not as good as the human voice (丝不如竹，竹不如肉)." This ...

The news that Maugein, the last accordion manufacturer in France, will cease doing business, raises the question of whether the “box of sobs,” as the French call it, is more Gallic or Jewish in its ...