While modern jazz can enlist many timbres, the accordion is limited to a distinctive sound that everyone remembers. From distant memories of wedding bands, we recall the instrument in its ...

From hypnotic dub to dramatic rock-driven soundscapes, accordion virtuoso Vincent Peirani and his quintet cast a spell over ...

Art Van Damme died on February 15th 2010 after being ill with pneumonia for several weeks. A Memorial to this great accordion jazz legend is now online and you can add your Tribute to his Tribute Wall ...

With our brains set on “shuffle,” programmed now to process (if not to crave) a constant barrage of random sounds and images, a quartet such as the Four Bags no longer seems like the desperately jokey ...

If you don’t think the accordion translates well into a jazz instrument, think again. Accordion virtuoso Eddie Monteiro will be doing just that when he jams on Sunday, Aug. 14, from 3-6 p.m. at the ...

Art Van Damme, a former Northridge resident known as the father of jazz accordion, has died. He was 89. The quintet leader known internationally for his swinging jazz accordion died Monday at a ...

San Diego has plenty of music festivals, but none are as stylistically diverse as The Carlsbad Music Festival. Friday and Saturday, I heard old time fiddling from Clinton Davis, the genial solo guitar ...

The accordion isn’t exactly one of the more common instruments in jazz. Yet in the context of the genre-shifting mix of New York’s Claudia Quintet, the accordion sounded so natural at REDCAT on ...

Place the word “jazz” next to the word “accordion” and you have what most jazz fans would agree is an oxymoron. The sound, the style -- even the look -- of the instrument are far more commonly ...

If Argentine composer and performer Astor Piazzolla didn't exist, the subgenre of "Nuevo Tango" — a mix of tango, classical and jazz — wouldn't, either, nor would this taster of accordion jazz.

In his 30-year career, French accordion virtuoso Richard Galliano has done what Astor Piazzolla did for the tango – rescued a traditional music – in this case the French musette – from the grip of ...