On Matane Malit, the Elina Duni Quartet lays expansive instrumentation over traditional Albanian folk melodies. The spread of formal jazz education has created a new breed of global musician: one who ...

He may be in his eighties, but this champion of traditional wind instruments has lost none of his energy, passion and creativity for this fast-fading element of Kosovo Albanian culture. Aged 84, ...

As a member of a Roma family where almost every male played an instrument, Rexhino Lufta grew up listening to the sounds of the clarinet and the keyboard and was inspired to make music himself. But ...

The former Greek finance minister has written the lyrics for one of the songs about migration that will form Albania's unusual contribution to the Venice Biennale. A traditional male group performing ...

QUINCY – Winds carried the smell of roasting goat and the sound of Albanian music and language through Kilroy Square while the national colors of black and red flashed on banners, flags, clothing, ...

As a cultural phenomenon, jazz flourished in the United States and quickly spread around the world. As it traveled, the tradition changed, incorporating local influences into its sound. The Elina Duni ...

On Matane Malit, the singer and her group offers a transfixing balance of old and new, laying expansive instrumentation over traditional Albanian... Elina Duni: Love, Lust And Albanian Folk Songs ...

The spread of formal jazz education has created a new breed of global musician: one who uses improvisation, and other devices associated with jazz, to transform folk and traditional music. The ...