John Vanore's big band Abstract Truth comes at you in subtle ways on their third CD Contagious Words (Acoustical Concepts 44). It's music that uses all the mainstream notes, but combines them often in ...

The spirit of Oliver Nelson and the thousand ghosts of Easter Island loom large over John Vanore & Abstract Truth's Easter Island Suite. The Nelson side of the equation has its roots in trumpeter ...

Fred Smith, the longtime bassist of the fundamental New York punk band Television, died on Thursday (February 5). The group confirmed the news Saturday (February 8) on their official social media, ...

Fred Blankenship joined the WSB-TV Channel 2 in 2007. He’s been waking up Georgians ever since as the anchor of Channel 2 Action News This Morning from 4:30 a.m.-7 a.m. He’s covered everything from ...

Fred de Sam Lazaro is director of the Under-Told Stories Project at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, a program that combines international journalism and teaching. He has served with the PBS ...

Few jazz projects can claim a gestation period as epic as John Vanore’s Easter Island Suite. Forty years in the making, this cinematic suite represents the Philadelphia trumpeter and composer’s ...