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Each night of Black Light, Daniel Alexander Jones straps on his platform heels, wears his assortment of sequined gowns and dons a beautiful wig, transforming into Jomama Jones. She’s an intimidating woman of contradictions who takes the audience on a musical journey that fuses everything from the Black American Freedom movement to Afromysticism and the musical influences of Prince, Sade, Diana Ross and Tina Turner.

Stellar Portland Piano International recitals reveal classical piano's next star.

Every pianist must come to terms with music of Chopin, whose scores extended the possibilities of the instrument in ways still being explored to this day. But few pianists dispatch Chopin’s work as poetically, idiomatically or dexterously as George Li, who made his Grant Park Orchestra debut Wednesday night at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.

George Li is a young pianist on the rise. At age 10, he gave his first public concert and at 15, he won a silver medal at the revered Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Li recently released his debut album on a major label and has been fielding offers, performing with some of the world's great orchestras.

This was less a scientific exploration than a poetic one carried out in a remarkable late-20th-century musical composition, Gerard Grisey's "Le Noir de l'Etoile" (1990).

David Skidmore, one of the founding members, gives us a little insight on how dance and percussion work together, as well as what he's most excited about for the Fall Series.

Last year Chicago quartet Third Coast Percussion won their first Grammy: Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, for a 2016 album of music by minimalist icon Steve Reich. 

Azam Ali and Loga Ramin Torkian make up two-thirds of the Persian-Indian music trio Niyaz. Ali, who was born in Iran and moved to India when she was 4, and her husband Torkian, a native Iranian, now live in Los Angeles. They released their second album, Nine Heavens, earlier this year.

Azam Ali is delighted to be in Canada these days. A few months ago, the siren-voiced singer with world-music trio Niyaz left L.A. with her husband, Loga Ramin Torkian, to raise their young son in Montreal, a city they find more congenial to artists of Iranian origin.